num_pages: 272
description: There's a victim in the vineyard. Or at least in the castle next door!Jessica Fletcher is visiting Napa Valley wine country in California while doing research for her next book and invites her old friend, Scotland Yard detective George Sutherland to join her at a cozy bed and breakfast. Just friends mind you. No sooner do they arrive than they find the valley abuzz over the murder of a waiter at the restaurant owned by infamous, ex-Hollywood heavyweight Bill Ladington. His blatant womanizing and involvement in a bitter vineyard land dispute have already marked him as a dubious character - and a possible suspect.But when Ladington turns up dead from a supposed suicide, Jessica knows that a murderer is on the loose. With help from George, she must try and bottle up a motive for murder from an extensive list of less-than-vintage suspects!Librarian's note #1: the first 15 books in the current Jessica Fletcher / Donald Bain "Murder She Wrote" series are #1, Gin &amp; Daggers (1989) with a 2nd edition in (2000); #2, Manhattans &amp; Murder (1994); #3, Rum &amp; Razors (1995); #4, Brandy &amp; Bullets (1995); #5, Martinis &amp; Mayhem (1995); #6, A Deadly Judgment (1996); #7, A Palette for Murder (1996); #8, The Highland Fling Murders (1997); #9, Murder on the QE2 (1997); #10, Murder in Moscow (1998); #11, A Little Yuletide Murder (1998); #12, Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch (1999); #13, Knock 'Em Dead (1999); #14, Trick or Treachery (2000); and #15, Blood on the Vine (2001).Librarian's note #2: there is an earlier MSW series by James Anderson and David Deutsch. Novelizations of TV episodes. This original series has 4 volumes: #1, The Murder of Sherlock Holmes (1985); #2, Hooray for Homicide (1985); #3, Lovers and Other Killers (1986); and #4, Murder in Two Acts (1986).
language: English
title: Blood on the Vine
titlecomplete: Blood on the Vine (Murder, She Wrote, #15)
characters: Mary Jane Proll, Yves LeGrand, Count Bonzi (Blood on the Vine), Neil Schwartz, Robert Jenkins (Blood on the Vine), Margaret and Criag Snasdell, Consuela and Fidel, Sherriff Davis, Nick (Blood on the Vine), Fatty Arbuckle (Angel Eyes), Wade Grosso, Seth Hazlitt, Marsha Monro, Harry (Blood on the Vine), Dr. Ayala, Frank Sinatra (The Four Wives of the Sanibel Sunset Detective), Roger Stockdale, Winston Wallace, Raoul Sebastian, Richard and MaryJane Koser, Jed Richardson, Marjorie Ainsworth, Mort Metzger, Louis Hubler, Laura Ladington, Bruce Ladington, Craig Thomas (Blood on the Vine), Kandinsky (Blood on the Vine), William Ladington, John St. Clair, Bob Dalpe (Blood on the Vine), Alice Ames Churchill (Blood on the Vine), Jessica Fletcher, Mercedes (Blood on the Vine), Tennessee Ladington, Edith Saison, Dr. Richard Smart (Blood on the Vine), George Sutherland (Gin and Daggers)
genres: Crime, Media Tie In, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Mystery
ratings_count: 811
places: Cabot Cove, Maine, San Francisco Bay, California, Napa Valley, California
series: Murder, She Wrote
publisher: Berkley Books