The Merlot Murders

I really learned a lot about the history of Virginia wine, wine making, grapes, etc. That's great. I live in Virginia and that was one of the reasons why I thought the book would be interesting to read/hear. The main reason I was interested in the book was the MURDER. By the end of this story if the narrator/main character had been killed I would have been happy and she would have deserved it for being stupid. The people of Virginia are slow southerns, with accents from Gone with the Wind. While the main character has lived in France for the last two years, so of course she is smarter than everyone else. Yet, she never has any idea what is going on? The book doesn't end, it just stops. I looked up Ellen Crosby and she did write additional books. Neither this site nor my library offers audiobooks. So maybe the MURDER part of the books got better. Like I said the wine part and the Virginia history was excellent. The southern accents were awful. August 7, 2010, Middleburg, Virginia. Swedenburg Estate Vineyard, 23595 Winery Lane. 540 687-5219. Ellen will be signing books at the vineyard as a joint event with Books & Crannies bookstore 540 687-6677. 12-5pm.

3 stars to Ellen Crosby's The Merlot Murders. I was very much looking forward to reading this book and in the end, I was glad I did. It was a complex whodunit mystery with a few side stories and a great new series full of interesting characters, settings and possibilities. Story Lucie returns hom......more

I didn't realize this is part of a series when I picked it up - in fact, I didn't figure it out until I got to the end of the book and thought there should be more to the story, so I looked up the author's name and discovered more Wine Country Mystery books. Don't get me wrong - the murder mystery i......more