Murder
by the Glass
A
Wine Lover's Mystery with Nikki Sands
Michele
Scott
Berkley
Prime Crime (Mass Market Paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-425-21021-9 (0425210219)
ISBN-13: 978-0-425-21021-9 (9780425210219)
Publication Date: June 2006
List Price: $6.99
Synopsis (from
the publisher): Life is sweet for Nikki Sands. She's toasting her new
job at the Malveaux Estate in Napa Valley and balancing a love triangle
with a neighboring winemaker and her boss, vineyard owner Derek
Malveaux — the catch of the country. And tonight, Nikki will
be on the arm of Napa's golden boy at a Sonoma mansion for the wedding
of the decade ...
Nikki's friend Isabel agreed to cater the wedding — before
she learned that the groom was her cheating lover. After the ceremony,
Isabel asks Nikki to bring the obnoxious bride another glass of wine.
But Nikki finds the new wife sprawled on the floor —
murdered. Since the dearly departed made enemies easily, there's a
bushel of suspects — many of them close to Nikki. Now, it's
up to her to get to the bottom of what may have been a killer bottle of
wine.
Review:
Murder
by the Glass, by Michele
Scott, is the entertaining second book in the wine lover's mystery
series featuring Napa Valley sleuth Nikki Sands.
Nikki criss-crosses Sonoma County and even ventures into San Francisco
on her search for who killed the bride at an ostentatious wedding
catered by her best friend. Interviews with suspects are invariably
carried out with a bottle of wine nearby making for some very chatty
conversations. It's all wonderfully spirited and sparkling and in the
end Scott adds a nice twist to this common murder mystery plot.
The book includes recipes of meals featured in the story together with
wine pairings. While including recipes is a common feature of culinary
mysteries, what distinguishes Scott's approach is not only the pairing
of a wine with a recipe but writing a short vignette that suggests why
the meal and wine are appropriate to the situation in the book. It's
very clever, frequently amusing, and informative.
Scott supplies colorful descriptions for her wine selections. Here's an
example from early in the book: "[The Ravenswood Merlot Sangiacomo] is
a delicious blend of summer fruits and earth flavors. It has a full,
ripe flavor quality, making it a nice balance with dark plum, cherries,
blackberries, tobacco, and spice." Uncork a bottle, and enjoy it with Murder by the Glass.
Special thanks to Michele Scott for providing a copy of Murder by the Glass for this review.
Review Copyright © 2006 — Hidden Staircase Mystery Books — All Rights Reserved
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Berkley Prime Crime (Mass Market Paperback), October 2005
ISBN-10: 0-425-20684-X (042520684X)
ISBN-13: 978-0-425-20684-3 (9780425206843)
Murder by the Glass
Berkley Prime Crime (Mass Market Paperback), June 2006
ISBN-10: 0-425-21021-9 (0425210219)
ISBN-13: 978-0-425-21021-9 (9780425210219)
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Berkley Prime Crime (Mass Market Paperback), March 2007
ISBN-10: 0-425-21452-4 (0425214524)
ISBN-13: 978-0-425-21452-7 (9780425214527)
A
Vintage Murder
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ISBN-10: 0-425-22254-3 (0425222543)
ISBN-13: 978-0-425-22254-6 (9780425222546)
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Berkley Prime Crime (Mass Market Paperback), February 2009
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ISBN-13: 978-0-425-22644-5 (9780425226445)
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Location(s) referenced: Napa Valley, Sonoma County, San
Francisco, California.
