Harvest of Secrets

The Wine Country Mysteries, Book 9

By: Ellen Crosby

Narrated by: Christine Marshall

The search for the killer of an aristocratic French winemaker who was Lucie Montgomery's first crush and the discovery of dark family secrets put Lucie on a collision course with a murderer.

It's harvest season at Montgomery Estate Vineyard - the busiest time of year for winemakers in Atoka, Virginia. A skull is unearthed near Lucie Montgomery's family cemetery, and the discovery of the bones coincides with the arrival of handsome, wealthy aristocrat Jean-Claude de Merignac. He's come to be the head winemaker at neighboring La Vigne Cellars, but he's no stranger to Lucie - he was her first crush 20 years ago when she spent a summer in France.

Not long after his arrival, Jean-Claude is found dead, and while there is no shortage of suspects who are angry or jealous of his ego and overbearing ways, suspicion falls on Miguel Otero, an immigrant worker at La Vigne, who recently quarreled with Jean-Claude. When Miguel disappears, Lucie receives an ultimatum from her own employees: Prove Miguel's innocence or none of the immigrant community will work for her during the harvest.

As Lucie hunts for Jean-Claude's killer and continues to search for the identity of the skeleton abandoned in the cemetery, she is blindsided by a decades-old secret that shatters everything she thought she knew about her family. Now facing a wrenching emotional choice, Lucie must decide whether it's finally time to tell the truth and hurt those she loves the most, or keep silent and let past secrets remain dead and buried.

©2018 Ellen Crosby (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

enjoyably different

kept me guessing all the way through because I didn't know what was going to happen next and who done what to who? really enjoyable!

Enjoyable.

Nice pleasant mystery. Dramatic and even educational. I like the characters. They are realistic. Nifty.

Another good book

I really enjoyed this book. The mystery is light and entertaining. The plot includes historical references as well as current events without being heavy and judgmental. Like the previous books in this series, I really enjoyed it. I also look forward to the next one in this series.

Very Enjoyable

I really enjoyed the series. I am always interested in anything that has anything to do with the Vineyard and even though they don’t go into wine production it is interesting. Also, there’s always a great mystery and this one I was quite sure who done it until the very end. It was fun.

The best one so far

I love this series but I think this one is my favorite. The mystery gets a little complicated but the end is worth it. Also. I'm glad that Lucie and Quin are finally a couple instead of the on again, off again thing they had going. It was getting old