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Bitter Roots
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Crosby, Ellen
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Wine country mysteries (Ellen Crosby) volume 12.
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Severn House 2022
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The brutal murder of a beautiful vineyard expert and a devastating storm force Virginia winemaker Lucie Montgomery to confront painful changes on the eve of her wedding. In just over a week vineyard owner Lucie Montgomery and winemaker Quinn Santori will be married in a ceremony overlooking what should be acres of lush flowering grapevines. Instead they are confronted by an ugly swathe of slowly dying vines and a nursery owner who denies responsibility for selling the diseased plants. With neighboring vineyards facing the same problem, accusations fly and the ugly stand-off between supplier and growers looks set to escalate into open warfare. When Eve Kerr, a stunning blonde who works at the nursery, is found dead a few days later, everyone wonders if someone in the winemaking community went too far. What especially troubles Lucie is why Eve secretly arranged to meet Quinn on the day she was murdered - and whether Lucie's soon-to-be husband knows something he's not telling her. Then a catastrophic storm blows through, destroying everything in its path. With no power, no phones, and no wedding venue, Lucie needs to find out who killed Eve and what her death had to do with Quinn.
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Ellen Crosby. (2022). Bitter Roots. Severn House.

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Ellen Crosby. 2022. Bitter Roots. Severn House.

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Ellen Crosby. Bitter Roots. Severn House, 2022.

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        Lucie Montgomery, owner of Montgomery Estate Vineyard in Virginia, is devastated when longtime family friend, landscape designer Parker Lord, is found dead on her property, and her sister, Mia, is a suspect in his murder. Other suspects include his husband, Ash, and Gabriel Seely, a scientist whose work Parker publicly disputed, leading to Seely's loss of funding. Or is it a reader angry over Parker's recent book on climate change? Complicating matters, Lucie deals with dying grapevines; concern over her sister's secretive boyfriend, Sergio; and her apprehension that her grandfather's relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in Paris just after the war will be made public. Lucie gathers information, puts the pieces together, and ultimately identifies the killer. Richly framed with details of Onassis' life, the business of book publishing, information on the Old Mistresses (forgotten female artists who were the equal of the Old Masters), Marie Antoinette, life in well-healed northern Virginia, and the particulars of running a winery, this entry in the long-running cozy series, with its sympathetic main character, will please fans.

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        In Crosby's latest Wine Country mystery, Lucie and fianc� Quinn's Montgomery Estate Vineyard in Virginia is thriving, but then disaster strikes. Vines they nurtured for three years after purchasing them from Landau's, a respected vine nursery, are dying. Lucie and Quinn are convinced the vines were diseased when they bought them, but when they approach vineyard expert and Landau representative Eve Kerr about restitution, she refuses to discuss the matter, arguing that the vines were healthy when Landau's sold them. Then Lucie meets an old friend at Goose Creek Bridge and sees a woman's body floating in the water under the bridge. Shockingly, it's Eve Kerr, and she is very dead. Did someone from the wine community kill her? Then, less than a week before Lucie and Quinn's wedding, a storm decimates the area, with no guarantee as to when power will be restored. Worse, the wedding venue, a garden Lucie has been tending for months, is totally destroyed. Now faced with dying vines, Eve's murder, and a wedding fiasco in the making, Lucie and Quinn need a miracle. A treat for oenophile mystery fans.

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