Book Reviews
Death by the Glass: A Sunny McCoskey Napa Valley Story by Nadia Gordon
Plot: Joining an American-wide chef competition, Sunny McCoskey competes in this epic contest of cooking. However, a day after the game ends, the biggest owner of the restaurant Vinifera, dies mysteriously inside his own house, Sunny smells some foul play and investigates further on what is reported as a natural heart attack.
Meeting new friends with some and leaving not-so-good impressions for others, she plays a role of sleuth and finds that it is not in fact, a “natural” heart attack, and the result she finds astounds all readers.
My Thoughts: First starting to read it, I didn’t exactly think it would take me as deep in thinking about everything that happens around us. Whilst it had so many unknown words about food and especially wine, these aspects hook me on to not only try to figure the puzzle, but brought up my ambition to understand what in the world these wines and cognacs and Armagnac’s were about.
Finishing the book, it’s surprising who and how they did it. Despite Sunny being the logical and smart one, she did get a scare when she finally figured what was going on. Through cool thinking, slipping of tongues and pure coincidences form this exciting and addicting story.
