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Make Friends With Murder
While writing an article on the California wine country for a Los Angeles rag, free-lance writer Morgan, along with ex-cop beau Tom, discovers a corpse at the Novelli Wineries in Santa Clarissa.
209 pages, Hardcover
First published February 1, 1992
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January 1, 2019
Morgan Reeves isn’t the type of person who routinely deals with dead bodies. She’s a freelance-writing ultra-feminist who can’t keep a relationship alive because she fears growing too dependent on the men with whom she’s having the relationship.
As the book opens, she is in the process of kicking her latest boy toy to the curb. She has drawn an assignment to write about wineries in California’s central valley area. It is while touring a winery for her first writing assignment that she opens a door and finds a corpse in amongst the wine barrels. Worse still, the guy appears to have died as a result of pesticide poisoning. If word gets out that the vintner is using pesticide-saturated grapes in his wines, the winery is history.
Not long without someone with whom she can thrash in the sheets, the lovely Morgan is captivated by a particularly virulent vintner who owns the winery in which the body was found. It becomes her single-minded mission to prove John Novelli’s innocence, and she sets out to do just that, placing her own life in peril in the process.
This is the author’s first book, and I have no idea whether I’ll read anything else by her. Probably. Everyone deserves a second chance, after all. This isn’t about a lack of talent. I just thought this felt like a vehicle for the author’s politics. I felt that Morgan Reeves was rather two-dimensional. The redeeming thing about this book is that it was a super-quick read. I managed it on a leisurely New Year’s morning.
As the book opens, she is in the process of kicking her latest boy toy to the curb. She has drawn an assignment to write about wineries in California’s central valley area. It is while touring a winery for her first writing assignment that she opens a door and finds a corpse in amongst the wine barrels. Worse still, the guy appears to have died as a result of pesticide poisoning. If word gets out that the vintner is using pesticide-saturated grapes in his wines, the winery is history.
Not long without someone with whom she can thrash in the sheets, the lovely Morgan is captivated by a particularly virulent vintner who owns the winery in which the body was found. It becomes her single-minded mission to prove John Novelli’s innocence, and she sets out to do just that, placing her own life in peril in the process.
This is the author’s first book, and I have no idea whether I’ll read anything else by her. Probably. Everyone deserves a second chance, after all. This isn’t about a lack of talent. I just thought this felt like a vehicle for the author’s politics. I felt that Morgan Reeves was rather two-dimensional. The redeeming thing about this book is that it was a super-quick read. I managed it on a leisurely New Year’s morning.
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