"This mystery is one you'll want to read right through with bottle of good wine and some of the author's tasty canapés at your side. I loved it and look forward to more installments." Nancy Fairbanks "A perfect blend of murder and page-turning fiction!" Holly Jacobs "Has all the sparkle, complexity, and romance of a fine champagne." Nancy Fairbanks, author of the Culinary Mystery series

Murder Uncorked
Michele Scott

Recipes and wine pairings included!

Nikki has just set foot on Napa Valley's rich soil when she realizes her new job may not be as safe as she thought. First off, Derek Malveaux is disconcertingly sexy. Second, his top winemaker is dead in the bushes outside Nikki's cottage. It doesn't take a connoisseur of foul play to know something's taken a terrible turn...

Nikki Sands was like every other aspiring actress—waiting tables between jobs. But Nikki had taken serving wines to heart. She knew enough to impress Napa Valley's golden boy, Derek Malveaux, who offered her a job at his vineyard. And though Nikki may have left her dreams of stardom behind, the world of wine is ripe with intrigue—and the seeds of sleuthing are planted...

For recipes from Murder Uncorked, visit Prime Crime Extras.

(The First Wine Lover's Mystery)
Berkley (Prime Crime), October 2005
244 pages ISBN: 042520684X
Paperback
$6.99

Also by Michele Scott:
A Vintage Murder, July 2008
Tacked to Death, February 2008
Death Reins In, June 2007
Silenced By Syrah, March 2007
Saddled With Trouble, December 2006
Murder by the Glass, June 2006

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