Ellen Crosby pours up another corking mystery with The Angels’ Talk about, an intriguing blend of key societies, Prohibition bootleg wine, and potentially scandalous files hidden with the Founding Fathers, all of which yield a vintage murder.

When Lucie Montgomery attends a Thanksgiving weekend party for friends and neighbors at Hawthorne Castle, an honest-to-goodness castle owned by the Avery family members, the final great newspaper dynasty in America and owner of the Washington Tribune, she doesn’t on the subject of The Angels’ Share expect the festive occasion to get rid of in death.

During the get together, Prescott Avery, the ninety-five-year-old family patriarch, invites Lucie to his fabulous wine cellar where he offers to pay any price for the cache of two hundred-year-old Madeira that her great-great-uncle, a Prohibition bootlegger, found out hidden in the US Capitol in the 1920s. Lucie understands nothing at all about the useful wine, thinking her late father, a notorious gambler and spendthrift, probably marketed or drank it. By the finish of the party Lucie and her fiancé, winemaker Quinn Santori, discover Prescott’s body lying in his wine cellar. Is one of the guests a murderer?

As Lucie looks for the lost Madeira, which she believes links Prescott’s death to a cryptic notice her father owned, she learns about Prescott’s affiliation with the Freemasons. More investigating tips at a mystical vault supposedly formulated with documents hidden by the Founding Fathers and a feasible connect to William Shakespeare. If Lucie discovers the long-lost documents, the explosive revelations could modification background. But will she uncover a three hundred-year-old magic formula before a motivated killer finds her?