The Nashik Valley Mysteries Treachery And the Terroir: A Nashik Valley Vineyard Mystery, Book 4, (Paperback)

<b>A thirty-year-old skeleton. A stolen legacy. A harvest on the brink of ruin.</b> <p><br>The autumn crush in the Nashik Valley is supposed to be a season of triumph for Master Sommelier Mira Kapoor. But when heavy excavation equipment breaches a hidden, pre-colonial limestone vault on the Vindhya Valley Estate, the harvest violently grinds to a halt. </p><p><br>Inside the subterranean cellar is a cache of undocumented, thirty-year-old wine-and a perfectly preserved human skeleton chained to the wall. </p><p><br>Knowing a police investigation will freeze the estate and rot the multimillion-dollar harvest on the vines, Mira brings in a discreet historical archivist to identify the bones through the chemical signature of the ancient wine. But when the archivist is found dead inside a massive, active fermentation tank, it becomes terrifyingly clear that the ghost in the cellar is not resting in peace. </p><p><br><i>Someone on the estate is willing to kill to keep the past buried.</i> </p><p><br>Former Nashik CID Inspector Rohan Desai, now operating entirely off the books, plunges into the grueling, dangerous underworld of the seasonal migrant camps to hunt a killer who moves like a shadow. Meanwhile, Mira is forced into a desperate race against time in the viticulture lab, chemically deconstructing the ancient wine to uncover a truth that could shatter her family's empire. </p><p><br>Her father didn't just steal the land. He stole the biological architecture of the wine itself. </p><p><br>With the corrupt local police closing in to shut the estate down, and a lethal, synthesized biological weapon primed to destroy the current vintage from the inside out, Mira and Desai must outmaneuver an inside man who holds all the keys. Trapped in a subterranean labyrinth rapidly filling with deadly carbon dioxide gas, they will have to risk everything to purge the poison from the soil. </p><p><br><b><i>Treachery And the Terroir</i> is a pulse-pounding, highly atmospheric thriller that masterfully blends the forensic science of winemaking with relentless action. Perfect for fans of complex mysteries, fierce female leads, and unyielding romantic suspense.</b></p>

• The Nashik Valley Mysteries Treachery And the Terroir: A Nashik Valley Vineyard Mystery, Book 4, (Paperback)
• Author: Gyan Prakash Upadhyay
• ISBN: 9798180220479
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-05
• Page Count: 94