Edgar Awardwinning author Aaron Elkinss creation—forensics professor Gideon Oliver—has been hailed by the Chicago Tribune as a likable, down-to-earth, cerebral sleuth. Now, the celebrated Skeleton Detective is visiting friends at a vineyard in Tuscany when murder leaves a bitter aftertaste It was the unwavering custom of Pietro Cubbiddu, patriarch of Tuscanys Villa Antica wine empire, to take a solitary month-long sabbatical at the end of the early grape harvest, leaving the winery in the trusted hands of his three sons. His wife, Nola, would drive him to an isolated mountain cabin in the Apennines and return for him a month later, bringing him back to his family and business. So it went for almost a decade—until the year came when neither of them returned.
