The Dark Vineyard

When a bevy of winemakers descend on Saint-Denis, competing for its land and spurring resentment among the villagers, the idyllic townùwhere Benoit ôBrunoö Courreges is the town's only policemanùfinds itself the center of an intense drama, with suspicious fires at the agricultural research station that is working on genetically-modified crops. Two young menùMax, an environmentalist who hopes to make organic wine, and Fernando, the heir to an American wine fortuneùbecome rivals for the affections of Jacqueline, a flirtatious, newly arrived Qu_b_coise student of wine. Events grow ever darker, culminating in two suspicious deaths, and Bruno finds that the problems of the present are never far from those of the past.