Murder on the Vine

<b>Ex-NYPD homicide detective Nico Doyle investigates the murder of a local bartender in the Tuscan countryside.</b><br><br>On a late October Sunday morning in Gravigna local maresciallo Perillo is having breakfast with ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle when he is called back to the station in Greve. Laura Benati the young manager of Hotel Bella Vista is worried&#151;her bartender and good friend eighty-year-old Cesare Costanzi has been missing for three days.&#160;<br>&#160;<br>The next morning Jimmy co-owner of Bar All&#146;Angolo Gravigna&#146;s local caf&#233; where Nico is a frequent patron runs out of gas on his way back from Florence. When Nico meets him to help Nico&#146;s dog OneWag reacts to the smell coming from Jimmy&#146;s trunk. Inside Nico finds a body wrapped in plastic: Cesare Costanzi stabbed several times in the chest.<br>&#160;<br>Why would anyone kill Cesare and how did he end up in Jimmy&#146;s car? That&#146;s for Nico to find out as Perillo once again turns to Nico for help with the investigation.