"Waiting on Wednesday" is a weekly event which had been hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine where we spotlight upcoming releases we are eagerly anticipating. I'm now linking up with "Can't-Wait Wednesday" hosted over at Wishful Endings.
Ellen Crosby pours up another corking mystery with The Angels' Share, an intriguing blend of secret societies, Prohibition bootleg wine, and potentially scandalous documents hidden by the Founding Fathers, all of which yield a vintage murder.
When Lucie Montgomery attends a Thanksgiving weekend party for friends and neighbors at Hawthorne Castle, an honest-to-goodness castle owned by the Avery family, the last great newspaper dynasty in America and owner of the Washington Tribune, she doesn’t expect the festive occasion to end in death.
During the party, Prescott Avery, the 95-year old family patriarch, invites Lucie to his fabulous wine cellar where he offers to pay any price for a cache of 200-year-old Madeira that her great-great-uncle, a Prohibition bootlegger, discovered hidden in the US Capitol in the 1920s. Lucie knows nothing about the valuable wine, believing her late father, a notorious gambler and spendthrift, probably sold or drank it. By the end of the party Lucie and her fiancé, winemaker Quinn Santori, discover Prescott’s body lying in his wine cellar. Is one of the guests a murderer?
The Angels' Share by Ellen Crosby is expected to be published November 5th, 2019 by Minotaur Books. This is the 10th book in the Wine Country Mysteries series.
Why am I waiting on this one? I find the mix in the first paragraph of the synopsis to be interesting: secret societies, Prohibition-era bootleg wine, and potentially scandalous documents. It sounds like the makings for a really good mystery. I'm hoping that even though it's probably a good idea to start at the beginning of a series, that I will be able to jump in and enjoy this one anyway.
What book are you waiting on this week? Share it or a link in the comments so we can check it out and maybe add it to our TBR lists. Thanks for coming by and Happy Reading!
Hope you're able to get this one soon! Love your WOW image above. :-)
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I'm going to have to look for this series - and awesome cover!
ReplyDeleteOooh! Pretty cover! Great pick!
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Ronyell @ Rabbit Ears Book Blog
Secret societies! Often a draw for me. I hope you enjoy this one when you get to it. It sounds like it will be good. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteI hope you do enjoy it and that it can be read on its own. Thanks for linking up!
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