When the owner of Vinifera, a posh Napa Valley eatery, contacts detective-chef Sunny McCoskey, it sounds like an ordinary consulting job helping a restaurant transition from one chef to another. In fact, the only thing unusual about Vinifera is the inordinate charm of its new chef, Sante Dominguez. In an uncharacteristic display of romantic carpe diem - largely inspired by her friend Rivka - Sunny plunges into a steamy affair unlike anything she has experienced before. But it's soon clear that all is not what it seems at Vinifera, or with Sante. Before long, Sunny is onto a trail of wine fraud and corruption stretching back twenty years and involving some of the valley's key players, not to mention a collection of wine some people would kill for...and did. Death by the Glass continues the adventures of Sunny McCoskey, her assistant Rivka Chavez, wine merchant Monty Lenstrom, and the rest of gang from Sharpshooter with a tale of dark secrets, big cabs, and a cook with an appetite for murder.