A variety of backgrounds for crime thrillers have been thoroughly explored over the years, but Stephen Laine’s entertaining outing unquestionably moves into unexplored terrain. The author is a wine expert himself, and channels that expertise into his tale of American wine specialist Dante Lombardi who has been thrown for a loop by his best friends taking his own life. He is distracted when his ex-partner, Claire Durant pu presents him with a synthetic wine she has created in the laboratory – a wine, what’s more which can stand comparison with the most respective wines in the world – and – worryingly can do so at a all to reasonable cost. But when she and her companies invention vanish, Dante is launched into a worldwide odyssey to find her, even though he is in no hurry to bring back her synthetic creation. Needless to say, there are other deeply in salubrious individuals also on her trail, and the stakes are high – including, possibly, the decimation of the world’s wine industry.Laine Incorporates just as much wine lore b into his peripatetic narrative to give it suitable verisimilitude, but he is well aware that the main impetus needs to be to keep the reader turning the pages. And that’s precisely what Jupiter’s blood does.
Jupiter’s Blood by Stephen Laine is published by iUniverse
