TY  - BOOK
AU  - White,Elle Brooke
TI  - Dead on the vine
T2  - A Finn Family Farm mystery
SN  - 9781643852966
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Crooked Lane Books
KW  - Farm life
KW  - California
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women farmers
KW  - Inheritance and succession
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Swine
KW  - Human-animal relationships
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Cozy mysteries
N2  - "Charlotte Finn never wanted to inherit the family's produce farm--much less plow a heap of money into it. Her plan is to hammer a great big FOR SALE sign into the farm's fallow furrows--but Charlotte's sunny hopes of a quick sale succumb to a killing frost when she finds a dead body entwined supine in the tomato vines. The poor man, it seems, was run through...with a pitchfork? Now, Charlotte is stuck with running the farm in the midst of a murder investigation. Charlotte's knowledge of farming is smaller than her bank balance, so she relies on caretakers Joe and Alice Wong and their farmhands. Can she trust them? She doesn't know them. There's also farmer Samuel Brown, who still carries a childhood grudge. But the case gets personal when Charlotte learns that the victim might have been her own kin--and seeds of suspicion grow into a fertile field of suspects. Charlotte turns to the farm's pig to help root out the killer. Soon, the goats, geese, and horse join in, but will Charlotte harvest a murderer--or buy the farm?"--Provided by publisher
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