Wine Country Mystery #11: The French Paradox

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Lucie Montgomery' s discovery of her grandfather' s Parisian romance unlocks a series of shocking secrets in the gripping new Wine Country mystery. In 1949, during her junior year abroad in Paris, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis bought several inexpensive paintings of Marie-Antoinette by a little-known 18th century female artist. She also had a romantic relationship with Virginia vineyard owner Lucie Montgomery' s French grandfather - until recently, a well-kept secret. Seventy years later, Cricket Delacroix, Lucie' s neighbor and Jackie' s schoolfriend, is donating the now priceless paintings to a Washington, DC museum. And Lucie' s grandfather is flying to Virginia for Cricket' s 90th birthday party, hosted by her daughter Harriet. A washed-up journalist, Harriet is rewriting a manuscript Jackie left behind about Marie-Antoinette and her portraitist. She' s also adding tell-all details about Jackie, sure to make the book a bestseller. Then on the eve of the party a world-famous landscape designer who also knew Jackie is found dead in Lucie' s vineyard. Did someone make good on the death threats he' d received because of his controversial book on climate change? Or was his murder tied to Jackie, the paintings, and Lucie' s beloved grandfather?