The Vintage Vendetta — Ellen Crosby

. 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 cherry blossom season, she doesn't suspect her reunion with old friend Rebecca Natale is a set-up. Then Rebecca disappears into thin air after running an errand for her boss, a billionaire philanthropist and investment guru. Also missing: an antique silver wine cooler looted by British soldiers before they burned the White House during the War of 1812. A clandestine meeting in the U.S. Capitol, a startling revelation on a windy hill, and cryptic messages from Rebecca cloaked in eighteenth-century poetry are all part of the suspenseful tale. Is it suicide, murder -- or an elaborate scheme to disappear? The Vintage Vendetta combines an entertaining mystery with fascinating winemaking detail and luminous prose that has become Crosby's trademark. AKA 'The Viognier Vendetta'.