Death in Wine Country by Gemma Halliday

While Emmy Oak started her culinary career as a personal chef to the stars, she’s perfectly content to now be back home at her family’s Oak Valley Vineyards, running the small but plucky winery. However, when one of her past clients—soap opera star Carrie Cross—purchases a vacation home in Wine Country, Emmy is happy to cater her housewarming party. Only, what starts as a Hollywood- worthy affair ends in tragedy, as one of Carrie’s costar guests is killed, and everyone is a suspect.

Detective Christopher Grant immediately sets his sights on Carrie’s husband, and this time Emmy isn’t so sure the tall, dark, and too-handsome-for-her-own-good detective is wrong. She has her own suspicions about the former child actor and his wife’s costar. But when a blackmail scheme, a wealthy estranged family, and a shifty cowboy from the wrong side of the tracks enter the scene, Emmy realizes Carrie’s husband isn’t the only person with reason to want the victim dead. As the danger mounts, the suspects multiply, and things heat up between Emmy and Grant, the killer homes in on a new target…and this is one party Emmy may not be leaving alive!