The Champagne houses, 1933
The great wine houses of the Champagne region are institutions — centuries old, fiercely competitive, and built on the management of reputation. When members of rival houses begin to die, the deaths are attributed to accident, rivalry, and the pressures of a Depression-era market.
Grey is not convinced. The pattern is wrong. The pattern is deliberate.
Old money, old grudges
The Champagne Murders is the sixth novel in The Detective Nathaniel Grey Mysteries — and the second continental case. Where Berlin was about industrial and political machinery, Champagne is about the older machinery of dynasty, inheritance, and the violence that accumulates across generations.
Grey is in his element and out of his depth simultaneously.
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