Dead on the Vine, Elle Brooke White
Dead on the Vine, Elle Brooke White
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Dead on the Vine
A Finn Family Farm Mystery

Author: Elle Brooke White

Narrator: Susan Boyce

Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/07/2020


Synopsis

Charlotte Finn never wanted to inherit the family's produce farmmuch less plow a heap of money into it. Her plan is to hammer a great big FOR SALE sign into the farm's fallow furrows, but her sunny hopes of a quick sale succumb to a killing frost when she finds a dead body entwined supine in the tomato vines. The poor man, it seems, was run through...with a pitchfork? Now, Charlotte is stuck running the farm in the midst of a murder investigation. Her knowledge of farming is smaller than her bank balance, so she relies on caretakers Joe and Alice Wong and their farmhands. But can she trust them? She doesn't know them. There's also farmer Samuel Brown, who still carries a childhood grudge. But the case gets personal when Charlotte learns that the victim might have been her own kinand seeds of suspicion grow into a fertile field of suspects. Charlotte turns to the farm's pig to help root out the killer. Soon, the goats, geese, and horse join in, but will Charlotte harvest a murdereror buy the farm?

About Elle Brooke White

Elle Brooke White is the author of the Finn Family Farm Mystery series. She once had hopes of becoming a renowned actress but ended up taking a job in advertising instead…until writing returned her to “a world of pure imagination.” Born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, she grew up in Paris, Brussels, and London before returning to the US to attend Vassar College. She now lives with her famous diving dog, Bardot, in Southern California.


Reviews

Dead on the Vine by Elle Brooke White has Charlotte Finn heading to Little Acorn, California after inheriting Finn Family Farm from her great-uncle Tobias. Charlotte has fond memories of a magical summer she spent there as a child. While touring the property with a realtor, they find a man dead with......more

Goodreads review by Nancy

A refreshing new series with engaging characters. Charlotte Finn inherits a produce farm in California and is not certain about whether to keep or sell the farm. However, when someone is murdered on the farm Charlotte feels she has no choice but to stay for now. I really enjoyed the characters in th......more

Goodreads review by Barbara

This was a charming and fun mystery. Charlotte Finn has inherited the family farm which had belonged to her grandfather when she was a child. She has many happy memories of the place but she had a very active career which kept her hours away in the city for many years. Now she has come with two of h......more