Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, People magazine and elsewhere. Her first book "Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California" was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and was named a Best Book of 2008 by the newspaper. Her second book, "Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California" was published in October 2015. For more information about author Frances Dinkelspiel, please visit her website at FrancesDinkelspiel.com.