No doubt Paul Giamatti has to figure in this somewhere

Mostly because of the working title of the opening book in this new two-book deal:

Ellen Crosby’s THE MERLOT MURDERS and UNTITLED second mystery, set at a

family-owned vineyard in Virginia wine country and full of details

about wine-making, to Sarah Knight at Scribner by Dominick Abel at the

Dominick Abel Literary Agency (World).

Now let’s think of some titles for book two, shall we? All I can think of is KILLER CABERNET, but I haven’t had enough coffee yet this morning…