The Can't Wait Wednesday meme is hosted by Tressa at the Wishful Endings blog. Here, you write a post about a book you want to read, preferably one that hasn't been published yet.
One of my favorite authors has a new book coming out on March 1, 2021. Ellen Crosby's 11th wine country cozy mystery, The French Paradox, adds an historical aspect to the plot, a first for the series. Our main character Lucie Montgomery, owner of a Virginia vineyard, discovers that her grandfather had a romantic relationship with Jackie Kennedy Onassis in 1949 during Jackie's junior year abroad in Paris. During her time in Paris, Jackie purchased several paintings of Marie Antoinette by an unknown artist. These paintings suddenly appear for sale in the present time.
From what I have read about this novel I gather that this is also an art mystery. In addition, it also seems that Lucy's grandfather will be more prominent than Lucy herself. What confuses me is that the earlier books in the series have always been straight murder mystery novels where the murder occurs in Lucy's vineyard. Lucy's disability has also been featured prominently in the series. She has a mobility impairment from an auto accident and needs to use a cane. How all these issues become tied together will be interesting to discover. I hope that this installment of the series won't be a disappointment. Other authors I read who crank out a book year after year tend to get bored with their series and change the formula for the genre as well as the setting of the books. It usually doesn't turn out well but we will see how Crosby's newest novel reads. Perhaps there is a murder somewhere in the plot and maybe the vineyard will be the spot for all of the action. I will have to wait for March to find out.
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