Napa Noir

<p>When northern California’s idyllic Napa Valley is shattered by the vineyard shooting deaths of two men investigative-reporter-turned-wine-editor Dante Rath seizes the chance to salvage his sagging career. <br /><br />One of the dead is the winery’s top investor a high-tech genius who was shot and killed by the winery’s owner who in turn was gunned down by Napa County sheriff deputies.<br /><br />At the murder scene Dante encounters Carmen Carelli the lawyer for the deceased investor and whose case files he rifles after sharing wine and other pleasures. <br /><br />But when Carelli is shot and wounded jogging near her house in Sonoma Dante knows something deeply sinister is fermenting in wine country. <br /><br />Doggedly pursuing the story Dante uncovers fraud deceit and a toxic scandal certain to shake the wine world and topple an international wine producer. But he must stay alive to publish the story.</p>