A Case of Sour Grapes

EVERYONE WANTED HIM DEAD. ONLY ONE PERSON WAS ORGANIZED ENOUGH TO NOTICE WHY.

After twenty years making a billionaire's chaotic life run like clockwork, Penelope Bridges is finally doing something for herself - house-sitting her way around the world, one property at a time.

Her first assignment? A stunning smart-home winery in California's Sonoma Valley, complete with a forty-seven-page household manual (she read it twice) and one very dramatic dog named Bacchus who is always the first to sense danger and the last to calm down.

It should have been straightforward. It really should have.

But when the winery's celebrated (and deeply unpopular) head winemaker turns up dead in the cellar during a storm, Penny finds herself doing what she's always done best: noticing things, documenting everything, and refusing to let a problem go unsolved.

The local deputy is skeptical. The sheriff is obstructive. And the list of people who wanted Julian Croft dead is growing faster than Penny can color-code it.

Good thing she's very good at her job.

The House Sitter Mysteries - because some people just can't switch off.