Rooted In Malice: A Biodynamic Cozy Vineyard Mystery

Welcome to Moonphase Estate, where the wine is wild, the soil is sacred, and the herbal infusions are to die for. Sixty-two-year-old widow Maude Applegate has traded a high-stress botanical career for the quiet rhythm of biodynamic farming in the misty Pacific Northwest. She trusts her compost piles more than most people and refuses to make major vineyard decisions during a waning moon. Life is peaceful, predictable, and perfectly balanced.

Until the "Wine & Wellness" retreat descends on her farm.

Led by Savannah Sterling—a cutthroat yoga guru who uses mindfulness as a weapon and wellness as a front for corporate bullying—the retreat is a clash of synthetic aesthetics and natural harmony. But the tension turns fatal when Savannah collapses midway through a twilight meditation, poisoned by a toxic additive slipped into Maude’s signature chakra-cleansing tea.