Acton Manning
A Little Wine with your Crime
End of the Vine
A Daniel Winters Mystery
Amanda Turner's death is nothing if not unusual: a hanging with handwoven rope in the same colors as her freshly painted room. And on the menu before she allegedly killed herself, an artisanal prosciutto paired with wine, a lovely Friulano.
The scene fails to raise alarm bells for most of San Francisco Police Department’s suicide squad. Only Detective Daniel Winters believes the coroner is wrong: Amanda Turner did not end her own life.
Dan literally has a nose for crime—the nose of a sommelier. He soon sniffs out another suspicious death, a fatal jump paired with the elements of a rich, red, Australian Coonawarra, followed days later by the third in this sudden spate of bizarre supposed suicides.
Dan is convinced they're all connected. Chief is convinced that Magic Man, as he calls Dan, has nothing left up his sleeve—nothing at all. He's just finally and completely lost it. There's only one way to find out ...
Now available on Audible
End of the Vine is now available as an audiobook narrated by the multi-award winning Grover Gardner, aka Publishers Weekly "Audiobook Narrator of the Year" and one of AudioFile’s "Best Voices of the Century".
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About Acton Manning
Acton Manning is a certified sommelier and international wine educator (Diplomate of WSET). Originally trained in emergency medicine, he's swapped his stethoscope for a virtual pen to create the Daniel Winters series. When he's not visiting the world's great vineyards or teaching fellow Dionysians how to enjoy fine food paired with wine, he can be found at his laptop, working on his next Daniel Winters mystery while sipping a glass of his latest favorite muse.
What people are saying about End of the Vine...
Intoxicating page-turner that you can't put down!
Intelligent crime novel. The wording is beautiful and smooth.
If you love wine, food, travel and murder mysteries, you'll love this book