Jerry Blanchard, a celebrity food critic who said that food speaks to him like no other, finds out how true that is... when a raisin informs him of a murder in a vineyard. Already unmoored by his wife's death, he is consumed by grief, guilt, and shame... and now haunted by visions of her, as well as dark deeds of those who prepared the food? He struggles to return to work but his appearance as a judge at a Monterey food festival descends into a mortifying spectacle as he reveals a litany of long-forgotten crimes. His sanity is questioned and his past is cruelly dissected online.
When others doubt his connection to reality, he sets out to answer the question and prove to himself that Ginny’s visits – and the woman’s murder – are not phantasms. Finding the truth takes on new urgency. His quest to confirm her murder becomes his sole lifeline back to sanity and finding redemption but he pulls on a thread that threatens to unravel one of the largest human trafficking rings in the US.
Robert Zeid has been penning stories since he was 7 years old when his first graphic novel was taped to the fridge door and has been mulling over them ever since. While the stories are fiction, there has always been the touch of a muse from a different realm that cannot be dismissed as pure fantasy.
He and Amanda have called North Carolina home since the early 90s and Asheville for over 10 years. When they are not hiking they tend to the whims of their master, Magnus.View all by Robert L. Zeid
