A J Carton: 4 books

One of Opera’s great sopranos is dead. Was it murder? If so, who killed her? The Roma? The jealous wife? The ruthless understudy? Or was it Emma’s tomato sauce? Newly residing in Blissburg, a quaint, wine country town north of San Francisco that caters to the rich and richer, amateur sleuth Emma...

After her best friend’s funeral, Emma’s daughter wants her to move to Blissburg to be near her family. At first, Emma is sure that nothing can convince her to leave her job, sacrifice her independence and abandon San Francisco to move to Northern California’s newest wine country pop-up paradise....

When the body of a Mexican laborer is found with its throat slit on the property of Emma's son-in-law's richest client, Emma gets caught between her boss's resolve to put the broken-hearted old rancher behind bars and her son-in-law's determination to prove the bitter old man innocent.  Emma needs...

When Emma Corsi's best friend Jack Russo decides to expand Ristorante Massimo into a luxury restaurant and hotel, someone sabotages half a million dollars of his best French wine. Was it environmentalists worried about Blissburg's development run amuck, the 98% worried about affordable housing, the French...