The Sauvignon Secret
The Wine Country Mysteries: Book #6
- By: Ellen Crosby
- Narrated by: Rachael Warren
- Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Description
When Lucie Montgomery finds the body of prominent wine merchant Paul Noble hanging from a beam in his art studio not far from her Virginia vineyard, she is unwittingly dragged into Noble’s murky past. Once a member of the secretive “Mandrake Society,” Noble might have aided in a cover-up of the deaths forty-years ago of a disabled man and a beautiful young biochemist involved in classified government research. A seemingly innocent favor for an old friend of her French grandfather’s sends Lucie to California where she teams up with Quinn Santori, who walked out of Lucie’s life months earlier. Soon Lucie and Quinn are embroiled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game that takes them from glittering San Francisco to the legendary vineyards of Napa and Sonoma, then back home to Virginia as they try to discover whether a killer may be seeking vengeance for the long-ago deaths. As Lucie and Quinn struggle to uncover the mystery, they must also decide whether they have a future together. Blending an intriguing mystery with an absorbing plot, vivid characters, and a richly evoked setting, The Sauvignon Secret should be savored like a glass of fine wine.
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The Wine Country Mysteries Series

The Merlot Murders
By: Ellen Crosby
Narrated by: P. J. Davis-Oran
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Lucie Montgomery’s semi-estranged brother, Eli, calls her in France to tell her their father, Leland, has been killed in a hunting accident on the family’s five hundred acre Virginia vineyard. But the vineyard is now shabby and run-down and her siblings want to sell it. Then Lucie’s godfather tells her Leland’s death was no accident. With her... Read more »
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The Chardonnay Charade
By: Ellen Crosby
Narrated by: Christine Marshall
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Facing a freakish May freeze that threatens her vineyard, Lucie Montgomery is forced to hire a helicopter to fly over the vines warming the arctic air next to the grapes. But her luck in salvaging the harvest runs out when she discovers the body of Georgia Greenwood, a controversial local political candidate, lying near the fields. Georgia’s... Read more »
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The Bordeaux Betrayal
By: Ellen Crosby
Narrated by: Christine Marshall
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
When Valerie Beauvais, author of a book on Thomas Jefferson’s travels through the wine regions of France and Italy, turns up dead near Lucie Montgomery’s Virginia vineyard, Lucie is certain Valerie’s murder has something to do with the authenticity of a 200-year-old bottle of Bordeaux Jefferson may once have purchased for his good friend George... Read more »
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The Riesling Retribution
By: Ellen Crosby
Narrated by: Christine Marshall
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
When a tornado rips through Montgomery Estate Vineyard, it not only destroys some of Lucie Montgomery’s newest grapevines, it also unearths an old grave. After the dead man is identified as a former business associate of Lucie’s father, it seems everyone in Lucie’s hometown has already decided Leland Montgomery is a murderer. As the evidence... Read more »
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The Viognier Vendetta
By: Ellen Crosby
Narrated by: Christine Marshall
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
When Lucie Montgomery visits Washington, DC, she doesn’t expect that her reunion with old friend Rebecca Natale is a setup. But Rebecca disappears into thin air after running an errand for her boss, billionaire philanthropist and investment guru Sir Thomas Asher. Also missing: an antique silver wine cooler looted by British soldiers before they... Read more »
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The Sauvignon Secret
By: Ellen Crosby
Narrated by: Rachael Warren
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
When Lucie Montgomery finds the body of prominent wine merchant Paul Noble hanging from a beam in his art studio not far from her Virginia vineyard, she is unwittingly dragged into Noble’s murky past. Once a member of the secretive “Mandrake Society,” Noble might have aided in a cover-up of the deaths forty-years ago of a disabled man and a... Read more »
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The Champagne Conspiracy
By: Ellen Crosby
Narrated by: Christine Marshall
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Lucie Montgomery, vintner at a Virginia winery, must solve a mystery that connects a presidential scandal with a murder in Prohibition-era DC that echoes all the way to the present.Lucie Montgomery and winemaker Quinn Santori have decided to make champagne, a first for the the Montgomery Estate Vineyard in Atoka, Virginia. But then Gino Tomassi,... Read more »
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The Vineyard Victims
By: Ellen Crosby
Narrated by: Christine Marshall
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The death of a former presidential candidate in a fiery car crash at her Virginia vineyard has ties to a thirty-year-old murder, as well as to Lucie Montgomery's own near-fatal accident ten years ago, as she searches for a killer who now may be stalking her.When Jamison Vaughn-billionaire real estate mogul, Virginia vineyard owner, and... Read more »
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Harvest of Secrets
By: Ellen Crosby
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
The search for the killer of an aristocratic French winemaker who was Lucie Montgomery's first crush and the discovery of dark family secrets put Lucie on a collision course with a murderer.
It's harvest season at Montgomery Estate Vineyard-the busiest time of year for winemakers in Atoka, Virginia. A skull is unearthed near Lucie Montgomery's... Read more »
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The Angels’ Share
By: Ellen Crosby
Narrated by: Christine Marshall
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
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,... Read more »
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