A Vintage Death

Rory James is fond of a good red, but that's not why he's asking questions in the wineries of Heathcote. The Detective Sergeant is trying to bring a cold case back to life. But another body at Lady's Pass Run sets Rory on a collision course with not just the colleague who almost ruined his career, but history as well. It looks like the highly-prized vineyards are, once again, full of intrigue and dangerous plots. Why would someone kill for a Heathcote shiraz?A fourteen-year-old cold-case among Heathcote's boutique wineries, the perfect antidote for a damaged homicide cop returning to duty. That is, until a fresh corpse greets his arrival. Things head further south when his nemesis within the force, Detective Sergeant Gary Cockburn, is assigned to the new case.While Cockburn sets off after a nebulously implicated crime gang, Rory's cold case leads him deeper into gripping local history and rolling acres of vigneron-prized soil. The older the clues, the nearer Rory comes to unearthing a connection between the two cases ... and another damaging collision with Cockburn.The striking Victorian goldfields backdrops of Heathcote and Bendigo glisten along the trail to - who would kill for a Heathcote shiraz?