Murder in the Wine Cellar

By Bob Moats

Nick Cain and Bill, his parter in their investigation business go to pick up a barrel of wine for Nick's wine cellar. They discover that the barrel contained blood instead of wine which starts then on the path to solving the case as to how two men ended up in barrels. This is a novella, shorter than a novel but longer than than a short story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bob Moats
• Release date: Oct 23, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215267295

Bob Moats

Detroit area resident, Bob Moats, has been writing short stories and plays for as long as he can remember. He has lost most of his original stories, typed or handwritten, in the numerous moves he has made from his hometown of Fraser, Michigan to Northern Michigan, to Las Vegas and back to Fraser, where he now lives. Moats became one of the causalities of unemployment a year ago, and had time on his hands to finally pursue a life long dream of writing a full blown crime novel. Thus was born the first book, "Classmate Murders".What followed was a series of seven books starting with "The Classmate Murders" which introduces the main character, Jim Richards, who has to admit he has become a senior citizen, reluctantly. Richards, one day, receives an email from a childhood sweetheart asking for his help, but by the time he reaches her, she has been murdered. His life turns around and he is pulled into numerous murders of women from his high school who he hasn't seen in forty years. Along with a friend of his, Buck, a big, mustached biker, they go off to track down the killer before he can get to one former classmate, Penny Wickens, a TV talk show host who Jim has just fallen for while protecting her. The killer is also murdering the women right out from under police protection, driving homicide detective Will Trapper crazy, and he slowly depends on Jim to help. There's humor, suspense, wild chases across suburban Detroit with cops, classic cars and motorcycle clubs; murder, mayhem, a good amount of romance and a twist ending.Jim and his crime fighters, continue in the other books, traveling to Las Vegas twice, back to Detroit and out to New York to solve murders involving dominatrix; mistresses; Bridezillas; magic and strip clubs.Book titles: Classmate Murders; Vegas Showgirl Murders; Dominatrix Murders; Mistress Murders; Bridezilla Murders; Magic Murders; Strip Club Murders and Made-for-TV Murders.

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Magic 1 Productions

Website: http://murdernovels.com

Cover design by Bob Moats

Stock photo www.fotosearch.com

Extra special thanks to:

To Amy Morningstar, for editing my chapters.

To my beta reader Al Norris for proofing the final copy and hopefully catching all those annoying little errors that slip through.

Thank you to all the people who purchased this book. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it for my faithful readers.

Chapter 1

The woman tried to scream as the knife ran across her throat. Blood spurted out as she fell to the floor.

Sally and I sat in the living room on the couch watching TV of the murder. Sally cringed as the woman died. We were alone since Bill and Lily had gone out in the rain to go shopping for items to decorate their room to make it a little