Pinot Red or Dead?

by J.C. Eaton

There’s a lot of noir surrounding this rare pinot.



As the vineyards in Seneca Lake, New York, prepare for the seasonal “Deck the Halls Around the Lake” festivities, someone is determined to keep pinot noir off the wine list. Hijacked trucks and sabotaged ingredients have made it a hard-to-acquire vintage for the six local wineries—including Norrie Ellington’s Two Witches Winery.

The case of the stolen and spoiled wines gets stranger when Arnold Mowen, owner of the company distributing the wine, is found dead, the apparent victim of a hunting accident. As Norrie tries to find the connections between the pinot’s problems and Arnold’s death, she uncovers a conspiracy among many locals whose hatred for the wine distributor was bottled up for far too long. . .

• ISBN10: 1516108035
• ISBN13: 9781516108039
• Publish Date: 26 March 2019
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing
• Imprint: Lyrical Underground
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 205
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9781516108039

Reviews

[Baroness Book Trove]

I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy from the Great Escapes Book Tours. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Norrie Ellington finds another dead body before Thanksgiving!

Pinot Red or Dead? by J.C. Eaton is a tremendously hilarious book. Norrie Ellington is so funny that I was laughing each time I picked up the book to read it. There is a lot to love about this book especially the characters.

What I like:

• Written in the first-person with Norrie Ellington, our sleuth, being the narrator. I enjoy getting inside Norrie’s head and seeing how she figures things out, especially when it comes to the mystery. Or just regular day-to-day business about co-owning a winery with your sister.


• The community that Norrie is in, with her winery and the others is truly fabulous, especially when they help her solve the mysteries.


• Norrie is in a relationship with a lawyer.


• Despite Norrie trying to stay out of police business she just can’t help herself. Especially when it might lead to who the killer is.

What I don’t like:

The one thing that I didn’t like was that the sleuth forgot a vital clue from the very beginning of the story. I know not really all that important, but I thought it was.

Five Star

Pinot Red or Dead? by J.C. Eaton has a marvelous mystery, and this book is a great one to start this series for people just jumping right on in. I am giving it a five-star rating and recommending it to anyone that likes cozy mysteries and wine too.

Other books in the Series:

A Riesling to Die

by J.C. Eaton
Series: The Wine Trial Mysteries #1
Published by Lyrical Underground on March 27, 2018
Genres: Mystery, Cozy, Women Sleuth
Pages: 220 
Format: Paperback or Kindle
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A deadly search for sour grapes . . .

Norrie Ellington is a successful screenwriter living in New York City. She's also been a silent partner for her family's winery upstate-until her sister and brother-in-law take a year-long sabbatical. With an experienced staff doing the work, Norrie figures Two Witches Winery will run itself while she enjoys the countryside and writes in peace and quiet.

Unfortunately, there's a sour grape in the town of Penn Yan who doesn't care for vineyards. Bed and breakfast owner Elsbeth Waters complains to everyone who'll listen that the local wineries are bad for her business. But when Elsbeth's body is found on Norrie's property, the victim of foul play, the screenwriter-turned-vintner dons a sleuthing cap to uncover the identity of a killer who told the B&B proprietess to put a cork in it-permanently . . .

Chardonnayed to Rest

by J.C. Eaton
Series: The Wine Trial Mysteries #2
Published by Lyrical Underground on September 25, 2018
Genres: Mystery, Cozy, Women Sleuth
Pages: 220 
Format: Paperback or Kindle
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Finding a murderer requires 100% proof.

In Seneca Lake, New York, Norrie Ellington's Two Witches Winery has been selected by the local vintner community to host the annual Federweisser, a celebration of the season's first fermentation of white Chardonnay grapes. But the festivities are spoiled when Norrie learns that landowner Roy Wilkes has raised her neighbor Rosalee Marbelton's rent so high, she may have to close her vineyard.

Before the rent hike could go into effect, Wilkes is found dead on Roslaee's property--stabbed by a flowerpot stake--and she becomes the police's number one suspect. To clear her friend's name, Norrie conducts her own investigation. But as she gathers clues, Norrie finds herself targeted by a killer, and if she's not careful, her desire to see justice done may die on the vine . . .

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