Gatsby's Vineyard

A Fiddler and Fiora Mystery Book 3

by A. E. Maxwell, Elizabeth Lowell

Two of A Kind, Inc

February 18, 2012

Available in: Paperback, e-Book (reprint)

Gatsby's Vineyard
by A. E. Maxwell, Elizabeth Lowell

You might have heard of THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald's homage to a man with money and an impossible dream. The problem with that kind of dream is that it often ends up killing you.

Sandra, an old friend of mine, had a gift for nourishment. In Napa Valley's lush wine country, she put me together after Fiora and I split the first time.

I owed Sandra for her simple, life-giving generosity. When trouble came knocking at her door years later, I was just the man to open it.

But Fiora was dreaming her fey Scots dreams of danger and death. She wouldn't let me go without her.

If I had known what I was getting into, I never would have let her come with me to Napa Valley, where wine and blood ripened in the sunshine...

Originally published May 1987 in hardcover, September 1988 and April 1993 in paperback and November 2009 in trade paperback.



A. E. Maxwell's Bio

Individually and with co-author/husband Evan, Ann Maxwell has written over 60 novels and one non-fiction book. There are 30 million copies of these books in print, as well as reprints in 30 foreign languages. The novels range from science fiction to historical fiction, from romance to mystery to suspense. Writing as Ann Maxwell, she began her career in 1975 with a science fiction novel, CHANGE. Since then, seven of her nine science fiction novels have been recommended for the Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula Award; A DEAD GOD DANCING was nominated for what was then called TABA (The American Book Award). In 1976 Ann and Evan (as A. E. Maxwell) collaborated with a Norwegian hunter and photographer, Ivar Ruud, on The Year-Long Day, a nonfiction work that was condensed in Reader's Digest and published in four foreign editions and three book club editions. In 1985, the first A. E. Maxwell crime novel featuring a couple called Fiddler and Fiora was published by Doubleday. THE FROG AND THE SCORPION, received a creative writing award from the University of California. The fourth book in the series, JUST ENOUGH LIGHT TO KILL, was named by Time magazine as one of the best crime novels of 1988. Ann and Evan (writing as Ann Maxwell) have published four suspense novels, the most recent of which is SHADOW AND SILK. These novels appeared on nation-wide bestseller lists. In 1982, Ann began publishing romances as Elizabeth Lowell. Under that name she has received numerous professional awards in the romance field, including a Lifetime Achievement award from the Romance Writers of America (1994). Since July of 1992, she has had 30 novels on the New York Times list.