Great read!! A true page turner. Ms. Eagle has a grasp on keeping the suspense up until the very end. Believable characters and very intriguing plot twists!

A murder mystery that is compelling and oftentimes suspenseful, Blood Is Thicker Than Wine feels intensely personal from the very start. When Lil Starling inherits some cardboard boxes containing FBI reports and handwritten notes by her grandfather Gus Gaylord, she discovers an investigation into a double homicide from July 1943. With the murder of two girls in a park bearing a connection to her family, Lil quickly finds out that behind the sleepy, small-town façade of Warsaw, New York is a place thriving on lies, scandal and murder.

This praiseworthy story with finely clear-cut dialogue, pulls us in smoothly into the seventy-three-year-old murder case that Lil Starling so desperately wants to solve. With plenty of wine to go around, sexual escapades among the main characters, and a tawdry hobby on the brink of exposure, the decades old secrets interwoven with murder may be the most fascinating case Lil has come across in all her years as a federal probation officer.

Taking in consideration of the social norms during the 1940s, Liz Eagle gives readers a rare glimpse into that time period during World War II, all through the eyes of Lil’s mother Jacqueline. Pursuing an acting and modeling career while living in Manhattan, Jacqueline on occasion finds herself hobnobbing with some of the biggest film stars such as a casual encounter with Vincent Price, sitting next to him at an Off-Broadway show.

Darting between the past and present, Liz Eagle keeps the story moving on multiple levels, exactly what a crime fiction novel ought to do. One must admire the character of Lil, with her determination to get to the bottom of whether this well-to-do family is responsible for a murder, carefully covering it up, thereby sending an innocent man to Attica for the crime. This is storytelling that is highly entertaining and will recommend without hesitation.