Poison parcheesi and wine
Arkansas Wine Country Makes the Scene
Four friends are steeped in secrets…
and another husband dies.
While the Who’s Who of Arkansas tourism gathers in Bluff Springs, a wine merchant husband turns up dead—and Amy Sparks finds herself once again in the middle of a murder.
What was supposed to be a fun stop on the “Big European Tour of Arkansas”—a political stump tour through wine country—quickly spirals into a maze of jealousy, cover-ups, and one suspiciously timely prediction.
Has Amy stumbled into a love triangle… or something darker? A black widow society, maybe?
As secrets swirl and stakes rise, Amy has to uncork the truth before another husband ends up headlining the local paper.
Friendship is forever... but the crappy husbands? Not so much.
PUBLISHED BY SCORPIUS CARTA PRESS OCTOBER 2022.
Wine country in Arkansas... Really? There is one?
Friendship rules in this mystery about wine and secrets,
The wife and her friends with their iron-clad alibi? Genna’s political candidate? A group of wine enthusiasts called the Cork Docs? A high school jock with unrequited love, or a sommelier-in-training with a caseload of secrets? Everyone had something to gain.
As the friends of the Cardboard Cottage scatter like players on a Parcheesi board, Amy needs to solve the mystery and bring them safely to Home Square before the game gets ruined by the poison in the wine.
and... #anotherhusbanddies
Steeped in murder and there's poison in the wine
“The Big European Tour of Arkansas has officially begun, my friends. We’ll get that boy to Capitol Hill if it kills us,” Genna claimed to her friends poolside.
“The big European what?” Rian asked.
“I’m taking my candidate on a back-to-your-roots political stump tour," Genna answered between slurps of a Sunday Mary. "We’ll stop at all the towns in his district named after European cities. Too bad we can’t go by train. A stump speech from a red caboose would be the cherry on top.”
Amy grinned from beneath her hat. It was one of those floppy summer hats that kept the sun off her freckles and made a bit of shade on her shoulders under a mid-day sun. She felt like bacon crisping on a griddle.
“If everything goes as planned, I’ll get a picture of the governor with Jerry Glen Villiger, and maybe we can finagle one with you, too," Genna said with vigor. "If everything goes as planned, that is. And why wouldn’t it?”
What could possibly go wrong with a plan like that? Amy raised an eyebrow at Genna. Did anything go as planned when the four of them were together? Not much chance of that. Maybe not even a fifty-fifty chance.
Poison Parcheesi and Wine is a good mystery where friendship rules
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