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Bottled Up

A Francine Witt Mystery

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Bottled Up

By: Steve Exeter
Narrated by: Ella Whitehead
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Francine Witt is back: armed with a travelogue, a wry charm, and a habit of finding murder where the rosé flows freely.

What begins as a biography project about a disgraced Egyptologist quickly spirals into something far stranger: a sealed bottle marked with an ancient glyph, whispers of Empress Joséphine Bonaparte's secret rituals, and a trail of memory-infused wine—possibly connected to the eccentric Masonic collector Daniel Iffla—that stretches from Amarna to Bordeaux. When her new assistant Rosalind Downing becomes mysteriously connected to the ritual itself, Francine finds herself racing to decode a legacy someone is killing to protect.

As glyphs emerge, bottles are opened, and a long-buried Brotherhood awakens, Francine must face a terrifying question: what if remembering the past isn't enough, and the only way to survive is to contain it?

BOTTLED UP uncorks another sparkling blend of feminist sleuthing, historical conspiracy, and Da Vinci Code-style suspense, with Francine once again proving that secrets age best when bottled, and sometimes explode when opened!

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Sorry this was just not for me. I like to read a story with a little bit of believability or possibility but I just could not get my head around the plot idea for this book. Which is a shame because I enjoy a good treasure hunt and the author obviously put in a lot of time and research to come up with this book. At the end of the book I felt like the book just kept either repeating itself or going round in circles. I did like the characters, although I am not sure I really connected with them. This is the second book in the series and it does help (a little bit) if you have read the previous book but I don't think I will be joining them on there next adventure.

While trying to learn more about her assistants grandmother, Francine stumbles on a hidden mystery. The academic community shunned her because she believed drinking from a certain bottle while performing a ritual would change history. So begin a race to find the missing bottles but they are not the only ones who are after what the bottle contains. The problem is drinking the wine will change one of them, as the wine holds the consciousness of someone from the last and the wine remembers.
I liked the narrator. She was bubbly enough to keep me listening.
I was given this free review copy audio book at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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