Bitter Finish — Linda Barnes

SOUR GRAPES IN NAPA VALLEY

Michael Spraggue is a wealthy private eye turned movie actor. He's in the middle of making a trashy Hollywood movie about--what else?--a private eye, when he gets an emergency phone call from Kate Holloway,

His sometime lover and current business partner in a successful California winery, Kate reports that trouble has come to Holloway Hills. Not only has Lenny Brent, their volatile winemaker, disappeared in the middle of harvest, but an unidentifiable murdered body has appeared--and Kate's the prime suspect!

So Spraggue rushes to the rescue, only to discover the body of a second victim. Lenny. Who is the killer? Spraggue hears stories of a corporate takeover, a spurned lover, an infuriated wine critic. But it's not until he tastes a certain '75 Cabernet that Spraggue can solve this vintage mystery.