A debut novel by Kari Niles
50
in the
Vineyard
When the birthday girl disappears — along with half a billion dollars — someone has to tell the story.
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A debut novel by Kari Niles
When the birthday girl disappears — along with half a billion dollars — someone has to tell the story.
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Tristan Weatherall has accomplished everything she set out to do — dragged herself and her brother out of poverty, built a $50B hedge fund, and married a handsome Brit. Now it's time to disappear.
To celebrate her upcoming 50th birthday, Tristan invites 50 of her favourite people to a vineyard on the Italian coast. When a hurricane threatens the party, a guest turns up dead, and half a billion vanishes from her fund — the guests are thrown into an unpredictable maelstrom.
A writer is there to scoop the story. The question is: will she survive
to tell it?
The settings
Tristan's hedge fund office draws inspiration from Arianna Huffington's Thrive Global space in SoHo — power, glass, and the hum of $50 billion under management.
A seaside haven on the Tyrrhenian coast. La Torre — site of the famous tower scene in James Bond's Quantum of Solace — stands watch over Domain Novella, where fifty guests, a hurricane, and a killer have gathered.
Kari Niles
Kari Niles is a writer and Creative Director with 25 years' experience crafting stories for some of the world's most discerning brands. She lives in South Orange, NJ with her husband — a filmmaker and painter — two sons, and a pit bull named Buck.
50 in the Vineyard is her first novel.
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