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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2006
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Sophie Medina

1 - Multiple Exposure (Aug-2013)
2 - Ghost Image (Apr-2015)
3 - Blow Up (May-2023)
4 - Dodge and Burn (May-2024)

A Wine Country Mystery

1 - The Merlot Murders (Aug-2006)
2 - The Chardonnay Charade (Aug-2007)
3 - The Bordeaux Betrayal (Aug-2008)
4 - The Riesling Retribution (Aug-2009)
5 - The Vintage Vendetta (Aug-2010)
6 - The Sauvignon Secret (Aug-2011)
7 - The Champagne Conspiracy (Nov-2016)
8 - The Vineyard Victims (Oct-2017)
9 - Harvest of Secrets (Nov-2018)
10 - The Angels' Share (Nov-2019)
11 - The French Paradox (Apr-2021)
12 - Bitter Roots (Mar-2022)

Book List in Order: 17 titles



  • Leland Montgomery's death was deemed accidental, but when his daughter Lucie returns home from France, she finds the once-thriving family vineyard run down, collapsing under huge debt. Lucie's godfather warns her that Leland's demise may have been th...



  • Mixing fine wine and murder produces "another hit" (Kirkus Reviews) in Ellen Crosby's second mystery as Virginia vineyard owner Lucie Montgomery discovers that uncovering a killer can bring a harvest of dilemma and danger. Lucie Montgomery thinks...



  • Ellen Crosby's third tale of suspense set amid the vines of Virginia wine country involves a two-hundred-year-old bottle of Bordeaux that Thomas Jefferson may have purchased for George Washington and is turning out to be a wine to die for. It has ...



  • When a tornado rips through Montgomery Estate Vineyard and unearths a grave in an abandoned field, police inform Lucie Montgomery that the odds are good someone in her family is responsible -- possibly for murder. But she has more to worry about than...



  • . Ellen Crosby's fifth mystery takes readers into Washington's corridors of power, where Lucie Montgomery uncovers a political and financial scandal while trying to locate her missing friend. When Lucie Montgomery visits Washington, D.C., during c...



  • 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, ...



  • When photojournalist Sophie Medina returns to London from an overseas assignment, she discovers that her husband, Nick, a geologist and covert CIA operative, has been abducted. Three months later she is shocked when a friend in the British government...



  • From the author of Multiple Exposure, an “assured tale of love, loss, and secret agendas” (Publishers Weekly), comes the second novel in the thrilling Sophie Medina series, following a photojournalist as she races to find an international treasur...



  • Claire Brennan has travelled to Moscow to fill in at work for her former boyfriend Ian, a journalist who is ill in the hospital. But she arrives to bleak news: Ian is dead. Instead of a hotel, her first stop is the hospital morgue.

    When Clai...






  • Winter has come to the Montgomery Estate Vineyard in Atoka, Virginia. Lucie Montgomery and winemaker Quinn Santori have decided to make champagne, a first for the vineyard. But then Gino Tomassi, Quinn’s uncle, turns up on their doorstep one af...



  • 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 sta...



  • 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―...



  • 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. ...



  • Lucie Montgomery's discovery of her grandfather's Parisian romance unlocks a series of shocking secrets in the gripping new Wine Country mystery. In 1949, during her junior year abroad in Paris, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis bought several inexpensiv...



  • The brutal murder of a beautiful vineyard expert and a devastating storm force Virginia winemaker Lucie Montgomery to confront painful changes on the eve of her wedding. In just over a week vineyard owner Lucie Montgomery and winemaker Quinn Sant...



  • Photojournalist Sophie Medina must figure out how the death of a Supreme Court justice and the murder of a homeless man are related before she becomes an assailant's next target.International photojournalist Sophie Medina and her old school friend Fa...



  • Washington, D.C.-based photojournalist Sophie Medina is not a murderer - but someone is determined to make sure she goes down for a crime she did not commit . . .When billionaire philanthropist and art collector Robson Blake hires Sophie Medina to ta...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ellen Crosby has published 17 books.

The next book by Ellen Crosby, Dodge and Burn, will be published in May 2024.

The first book by Ellen Crosby, The Merlot Murders, was published in August 2006.

Yes. Ellen Crosby has 2 series.