Queen for a Night (vol. XI)
The new Franconian Wine Queen was crowned only yesterday, but today the pageant’s proud winner is found dead in a Würzburg nightclub – killed by an overdose. The victim’s last movements and the cause of her death are a mystery to the investigating officers; was it an accident, suicide – or murder?
Meanwhile, Rio Duro vineyard owner Nicolas Hollmann’s holiday isn’t turning out quite as planned. Visiting relatives in Franconia with his family, he was hoping to learn more about the region’s white wine and its cultivation; but now he finds himself under pressure from all sides to investigate the case instead. As he does so, he unearths some long-standing animosities…
- Story is set in Franconia, Germany
Paul Grote is Germany’s best-known author of wine-related crime novels. He first discovered his interest in wine and wine-growing while working as a reporter in South America, and has since developed it into a primary focus. He has visited all of the major wine-growing regions in Europe and published eighteen crime novels centred around wine.
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