Vulture Au Vin (Murder
Mystery)
By Lisa King
ISBN #978-1579623579
Price $29.00
320 Pages
Rating 3 Stars
“Superb Writing, And A Darn
Good Mystery .”
Jean Applequist is on assignment from her magazine, Wine Digest, to cover a billionaire’s
wine tasting event at Phoenix Garden. Since there has already been a murder in
the area, her boyfriend insists she take their gay martial arts instructor as a
bodyguard. He’s sure Jean will end up involved in investigating the murder
while she’s there. The advice proves prophetic, as more murders occur, and
evidence points to someone at Phoenix Gardens.
The author does write for a wine magazine in real
life, and can name and describe the wines in detail. Her writing is superb, and
the mystery is darn good. I was disappointed that the author quoted classic
mystery novels, but never turned a good phrase herself. Having no interest in
thousand dollar bottles of wine, and what billionaires eat bored me to tears. The
fight between the gay martial arts bodyguard and an ex Army Special Forces
soldier lasted all of two blows, at the most a paragraph. Naturally, the gay
martial arts instructor beat the trained killer. The characters were vulgar. Most
of the story talked about wine and food, and was taken up with sex, or thinking
about sex. The gutter language spoken by intelligent characters, that should
have been able to speak without such words in every day conversation, was a
put-off. I received the book as a review copy from the publisher, as I
certainly would not have bought it. I love a good mystery, and this would have
been perfect, except for all the extra negatives that ruined it for me.
Tom Johnson
Detective Mystery Stories
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