Plot

The Gambini family winery is the take-over target of organized crime and it's up to Jessica to uncover who is behind the murder of a mafia hit man.

Jessica attends the grand 75th birthday party of Salvatore Gambini, the Italian patriarch and founder of a valuable winery. She soon finds out there are tensions as the old man fears only his son Marco is devoted to the business while the next generation is 'spoiled'. Paul's brighter brother, Tony Gambini, goes back and forth to Tahoe on some business he won't elaborate on. After Tony has an accident in the wine-cellar, Police Chief Thaddius Kyle and Jessica are watchful. However, they fail to prevent the murder of granddaughter Michele Gambini's boyfriend, who, as Kyle finds out, is actually a mob hit-man. Yet Jessica comes to a surprising conclusion, with an unusual end result.—KGF Vissers

Jessica Fletcher visits her friends, the Gambini family, whose patriarch, Salvatore, is about to celebrate his 75th birthday. Salvatore has put his whole life into the winery but he worries about the future. His son and daughter are still there but his grandchildren seem to have no interest in family tradition or the future of the business. One grandson is a gambler who may owe a lot of money to the wrong kind of people while the other is a rising football star. His granddaughter has had a string of relationships with unsuitable men. Salvatore has received an offer to buy the estate but he's turned it down. When one of the group is found dead in the wine cellar, Jessica has a murder to solve.—garykmcd