Murder & Meringue: The Tuscan Vineyard Mysteries: Book 16 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798251224986)

A billionaire groom. A pop-star bride. A multi-million-euro diamond covered in blood.

It's the peak of a blazing Tuscan summer, and Isabella "Bella" Rossi's usually peaceful vineyard, Villa Della Luna, has been completely transformed. She and Maresciallo Matteo De Luca are hosting the hyper-exclusive wedding of the decade for a global K-pop idol and a Silicon Valley tech mogul. Between the paparazzi helicopters circling the airspace and Nonna Rosa waging culinary war against a pretentious Parisian pastry chef, tensions are already at a fever pitch.

But the glamorous reception comes to a terrifying halt when the bride and groom cut into their towering, five-tier lemon meringue wedding cake. Buried deep inside the pristine white buttercream is the "Tears of the Orient"-a fifteen-million-euro diamond necklace entirely coated in fresh blood.

When the bride's ruthless, fiercely controlling manager is found bludgeoned to death in the estate's subterranean barrel room, Matteo immediately locks down the heavily fortified vineyard. Trapped inside the iron gates with a furious backup dancer, an obsessive stalker, and a tech billionaire hiding massive secrets, Bella must use her home-field advantage to navigate a venomous world of obsessive fans and music industry cutthroats. Can she expose the killer before the final curtain falls, or will her family's historic estate become a permanent crime scene?

"Murder & Meringue" is the sixteenth pulse-pounding installment in The Tuscan Vineyard Mysteries. Bringing the high-stakes suspense right to Bella's front door, this locked-room cozy thriller delivers shocking twists, a glamorous celebrity suspect list, and proof that nobody messes with a Tuscan matriarch's kitchen.

Author: Gyan Prakash Upadhyay
ISBN-13: 9798251224986
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2026
Pages: 86
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.18d