Tom Collins

The Claret Murders: a Mark Rollins Adventure Tom Collins

It's Nashville ... with a devastating flood, a beautiful lawyer, a deadly secret, and wine to kill for in this fourth Mark Rollins adventure mystery.An old man finished a glass of wine--his favorite claret--went to bed and died. Now more than fifty years later, a stunningly beautiful Nashville attorney, Ann Sims, prepares to auction off his estate--a derelict old mansion with its forgotten secret. Sims is living with a secret of her own, a secret that could cost her the fortune she is to inherit and end her career. Afraid, for good reason, of the possessive and greedy men in her life, she turns to Mark Rollins for protection.People are dead--possibly murdered. Rollins must deal with these events during a blinding three-day rainstorm that sends the Cumberland River over its banks and turns Nashville's streams and creeks into raging floodwaters.