The Vicious Vintner

<p><strong>Join Nick and Carter and all the gang in a tale of murder and wine family and betrayal and how secrets can destroy the thing they're designed to protect.</strong><br><br><em>Sunday August 6 1972</em></p><p> </p><p>It's a warm summer's day up in Sonoma and Nick and Carter are in the Cougar and on their way to lunch at a local winery.</p><p> </p><p>Merka Wines has been one of the big suppliers for Hopkins Hotels for quite some time.</p><p> </p><p>But Nick has never met old Paul Merka and his family and is looking forward to finally getting a chance to do so.</p><p> </p><p>After a delicious four-course meal Paul takes Nick and Carter out for a walk through the vineyards.</p><p> </p><p>Before they get very far though they stumble across a dead body.</p><p> </p><p>It doesn't take long before the family circles the wagons and attempts to prevent Nick from doing what he should as a licensed private investigator.</p><p> </p><p>And that's only the beginning of what turns out to be quite a tragic tale.</p><p> </p><p>Will Nick and Carter be able to stop the tragedy from spreading before everything is lost?</p><p> </p><p>Read the mystery of <em>The Vicious Vintner</em> and find out!</p><p> </p><p>* * *</p><p> </p><p>Some mysteries can't be solved in just a few days or weeks or months even.</p><p> </p><p>This epic tale takes us from California to France to Chile and back again. Spanning a lot of history from 1972 through to 1983 we make several stops along the way.</p>