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In the garden of deception, murder is always in season.
When renowned wine critic Victor Bramblewood is found crushed beneath a 500-pound barrel in a historic wine cellar, gardener and amateur sleuth Flora Greenfield suspects this is no accident. The victim had just announced plans to expose massive fraud in the wine industry, and nearly every vintner in the picturesque coastal town of Rosemere Harbor had reason to want him silenced. But when Flora discovers the barrel's support beam was deliberately weakened with a specially cultivated fungus, she realizes this murder has been fermenting for months.
As Flora digs deeper with help from her Garden Club friends, she uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to destroy Rosemere Harbor's wine heritage. Someone is flooding the market with fraudulent wines, using forged certifications and stolen identities to transform cheap imports into premium vintages. With her assistant's boyfriend framed for murder and violent threats escalating, Flora must use her botanical expertise to trace the killer's fungal weapon to its source. But in a town where everyone has secrets buried as deep as vine roots, the truth may be more bitter than she imagined.
When the conspiracy's layers begin to peel away like grape skins, Flora discovers that beneath the wine fraud lies an even darker vintage of revenge, dating back to old family betrayals and a suspicious death that was never properly investigated. With time running out before the prestigious Harvest Moon Wine Competition, Flora must identify the real killer among a vineyard of suspects—each nursing grievances that have aged into something potentially deadly. In Rosemere Harbor, some secrets are like wine: they only grow more potent with time.
Genre: Mystery
When renowned wine critic Victor Bramblewood is found crushed beneath a 500-pound barrel in a historic wine cellar, gardener and amateur sleuth Flora Greenfield suspects this is no accident. The victim had just announced plans to expose massive fraud in the wine industry, and nearly every vintner in the picturesque coastal town of Rosemere Harbor had reason to want him silenced. But when Flora discovers the barrel's support beam was deliberately weakened with a specially cultivated fungus, she realizes this murder has been fermenting for months.
As Flora digs deeper with help from her Garden Club friends, she uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to destroy Rosemere Harbor's wine heritage. Someone is flooding the market with fraudulent wines, using forged certifications and stolen identities to transform cheap imports into premium vintages. With her assistant's boyfriend framed for murder and violent threats escalating, Flora must use her botanical expertise to trace the killer's fungal weapon to its source. But in a town where everyone has secrets buried as deep as vine roots, the truth may be more bitter than she imagined.
When the conspiracy's layers begin to peel away like grape skins, Flora discovers that beneath the wine fraud lies an even darker vintage of revenge, dating back to old family betrayals and a suspicious death that was never properly investigated. With time running out before the prestigious Harvest Moon Wine Competition, Flora must identify the real killer among a vineyard of suspects—each nursing grievances that have aged into something potentially deadly. In Rosemere Harbor, some secrets are like wine: they only grow more potent with time.
Genre: Mystery
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