Master of Wine: A Brent Capello Mystery
Book Details
Author(s)D.K. Rodin
ISBN / ASINB006TJV4UG
ISBN-13978B006TJV4U2
Sales Rank1,434,172
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
MASTER OF WINE
Brent Capello, sommelier of the successful Manhattan eatery, La Vitrine, is tormented by his past, growing up in a dysfunctional family which disowned him after he came out as gay. Worse (arguably) in his family’s eyes, Brent quit his stable employment as a public defender and left his hometown, Ames, Iowa, to seek his fortune in the effete but glamorous world of wine snobbery. Although Brent hasn’t had a meaningful relationship since earning his Master of Wine certificate from a famed London academy, he does have a best friend, Elena Basset, an editor for the prestigious wine monthly, Winery Spotlight. The duo’s “foodie†serenity is violently disrupted one late night in 1999. Elena is struggling to put the magazine to bed, but she’s missing the usual 1,000 words of invective from her wine critic, Connell “Corky†Corcoran, and Corky is never late with a review. Since she thought he was working from home, she’s surprised to see the Corkster, sitting quietly – too quietly – at his desk, tinted a deep purple. (Corky, not the desk.) This is only the first of a string of bizarre murders that will rock the New York, Burgundy and Sonoma wine worlds.
When the police draw blanks investigating Corky’s death, Brent, Elena and Corky’s father, crusty WWII veteran Herb, travel to Burgundy to trace the wine in which Corky was apparently drowned. Puzzling new murders and Brent’s wine savvy (and naivete in everything else) draw him and his friends into increasingly perilous but hilarious situations.
Featuring arch banter worthy of a latter day Nick and Nora, the tale unfolds as a satiric take on global conspiracy theories among the food and wine-obsessed.
D.K Rodin is working on the second novel in the Master of Wine series, "Chill It and Kill It."
Brent Capello, sommelier of the successful Manhattan eatery, La Vitrine, is tormented by his past, growing up in a dysfunctional family which disowned him after he came out as gay. Worse (arguably) in his family’s eyes, Brent quit his stable employment as a public defender and left his hometown, Ames, Iowa, to seek his fortune in the effete but glamorous world of wine snobbery. Although Brent hasn’t had a meaningful relationship since earning his Master of Wine certificate from a famed London academy, he does have a best friend, Elena Basset, an editor for the prestigious wine monthly, Winery Spotlight. The duo’s “foodie†serenity is violently disrupted one late night in 1999. Elena is struggling to put the magazine to bed, but she’s missing the usual 1,000 words of invective from her wine critic, Connell “Corky†Corcoran, and Corky is never late with a review. Since she thought he was working from home, she’s surprised to see the Corkster, sitting quietly – too quietly – at his desk, tinted a deep purple. (Corky, not the desk.) This is only the first of a string of bizarre murders that will rock the New York, Burgundy and Sonoma wine worlds.
When the police draw blanks investigating Corky’s death, Brent, Elena and Corky’s father, crusty WWII veteran Herb, travel to Burgundy to trace the wine in which Corky was apparently drowned. Puzzling new murders and Brent’s wine savvy (and naivete in everything else) draw him and his friends into increasingly perilous but hilarious situations.
Featuring arch banter worthy of a latter day Nick and Nora, the tale unfolds as a satiric take on global conspiracy theories among the food and wine-obsessed.
D.K Rodin is working on the second novel in the Master of Wine series, "Chill It and Kill It."
