{"product_id":"dead-in-the-dregs-isbn-9781582435480","title":"Dead in the Dregs","description":"\u003cb\u003eIt’s murder in Napa Valley in this “thrillingly knowledgeable, insider’s odyssey into the world of fine wines [and] . . . particularly lurid homicides” (Anthony Bourdain).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a stroke of a pen, prominent wine critic Richard Wilson lives to elevate and, more often, destroy winemakers’ reputations. How fitting, his death: found murdered, floating in a vat of a particularly bold Cabernet Sauvignon at a Napa Valley tasting. Who did it? Any vintner whose career was ruined by Wilson’s sour grapes. But when those trail turns cold, Wilson’s sister Janie enlists the help of her ex–husband, Babe Stern. The ex–sommelier turned Sonoma County bar owner is following his own lead—to Burgundy, France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn cellars and tasting rooms from Beaune to Nuits–Saint–Georges, Stern tracks down a family of vignerons, whose troubled son was interning at the winery the night Wilson died. But it doesn’t end there. And as the investigation uncovers secrets bottled up for years, Wilson won’t be the last to die. In fact, the further Stern digs for the truth, he may be the next.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An evocative insiders’ tour of French wine country that a tourist will never see” (\u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e), restaurateur and former wine columnist Peter Lewis’s juicy mystery is “a rare and engrossing wonder dealing with the murderous grotesqueries of the wine world . . . in an atmosphere of homicide, sex and food” (Jim Harrison, author of \u003ci\u003eLegends of the Fall\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cb\u003ePeter Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e is a successful restaurateur and restaurant industry consultant. He has been a contributing editor for \u003ci\u003eVirtuoso Travel \u0026amp; Life\u003c\/i\u003e for which he wrote the column \"Wine Country Notebook.\" His work has also appeared in \u003ci\u003ePacific Northwest\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eArcade\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eDead in the Dregs\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel. He lives in Seattle.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302452056293,"sku":"NP9781582435480","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781582435480.jpg?v=1767724824","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/dead-in-the-dregs-isbn-9781582435480","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}