Spindler, Erica <br/><br/>
Blood vines / 
Erica Spindler 
 - London :  Sphere,  2010 
 - 338 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> 1st published in the United States in 2010 by St Martin's Press 
<br/><br/> Thirty-year-old Alex has always felt as if something is missing inside her, some small but essential piece of the puzzle. When her mother, Patsy, commits suicide without leaving behind any information about that past that tormented her, Alex is determined to follow any leads she can. She starts by tracking down the person who last spoke with her mother, Detective Daniel Reed. What he reveals is shocking..  Following her mother's suicide, Alexandra Owens decided to visit the last person known to have talked to her mother, Detective Daniel Reed. She's shocked to learn that her mother had once been married to a wealthy vintner and an infant son had disappeared. When the marriage ended, Alex's mother left with Alex and moved to San Francisco. Now the bones of an infant had been unearthed in a Sonoma vineyard. Could her mother have killed her baby brother? Alex and Detective Reed investigate 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781847442314 (trade pbk.) 9781847442307 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Single women--Fiction<br/>Brothers--Crimes against--Fiction<br/>Human sacrifice--Fiction<br/>Vintners--California--Sonoma Valley--Fiction<br/>Identity (Psychology)--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Sonoma County (Calif.)--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Domestic--fiction