Dead Man‘s Wine (A Sarah McKee Mystery, #1)

The bottles are fake. The bodies are real. One week before Sonoma‘s glitziest event of the year—the Flight of Fancy Charity Auction—a man is found dead. His face destroyed. His identity erased. All that‘s left is a cryptic list in his pocket... and a fridge full of counterfeit wine. Wine expert Sarah McKee is called in to help identify the victim, but the deeper she digs, the stranger the case becomes. Then another man turns up dead—with the same mysterious list. This time, the murder weapon has fingerprints. They belong to Zach Sullivan, Sarah‘s longtime friend, who‘s already reeling after his father lost the family winery to a gambling scheme. Zach has motive. He has no alibi. And unless Sarah can prove otherwise, he‘s going down for both murders. With a strait-laced sheriff at her side and a killer hiding among the elite, Sarah uncovers a web of greed, desperation, and a wine collection worth killing for. But the counterfeiting ring is dangerous. The auction is days away. And Sarah is running out of time.