"The writing is lean and restrained, and Fiddler...gives Travis McGee a real run for his money."--Los Angeles Times "Maxwell manages a slam-bang climax...and the California wine business background is unusual and entertaining."--Publishers Weekly "Evokes with grace, elegance and love the colors, smells and sounds of Napa Valley wine-making."--Vanity Fair "By far [Maxwell's] best, a California thriller with very realcharacters and dialogue and a violent, unexpected ending you won't soon forget."--Palo Alto Times Tribune Back in print, the third Fiddler & Fiora crime novel. Five months into their rekindled relationship, Fiddler and his blonde dynamo of an ex-wife Fiora find themselves in Napa Valley wine country. It's there that Fiddler gets drawn into former flame Sandra's vineyard woes. A run of bad luck and bad business might seem like coincidence, but when a rare and deadly parasite suddenly infests all the best vineyards--Sandra's included--the entre valley's industry is counting on Fiddler and Fiora for help. A. E. Maxwell is the pseudonym of Ann and Evan Maxwell. Ann is now best known as New York Times bestseller Elizabeth Lowell.