Merlot Murders

"Finely ladled suspense," says the Sun-Sentinel about the complex flavor of Ellen Crosby''s debut mystery set in the wealthy Blue Ridge wine country of northern Virginia, where vineyard heiress Lucie Montgomery must find a killer or lose her cherished family heritage.

A phone call at two thirty in the morning is never good news. Lucie Montgomery''s semiestranged brother, Eli, calls her in France to...