Amazon Releases Douglas Stewart's Cellars' Market As An E-Book

Originally published by the prestigious Collins Crime Club (now part of Harper Collins), Douglas Stewart’s original version of Cellars’ Market has now been published for the first time as an E-book. Following on from his extraordinary success with Hard Place which was recently voted as an Amazon ‘Best Book of the Year So Far’ and Best Book of the Month on Amazon USA, Stewart has come up trumps again with this scintillating read.

For those who are looking for more of this author’s titles, as was reported in reviews on the Amazon site, this re-release provides a great read with a fast paced storyline and a clever take on the expression ‘sellers’ market’. In Cellars’ Market a ‘Wine War’ breaks out when a top London restaurant discovers that its stock of Grand Cru French wine is actually plonk and tastes like trash and the importer asks our protagonist,  wine expert Bart Fraser, to act as an amateur sleuth / private investigator to discover who is trying to destroy his reputation.

However, what starts off as UK problem rapidly takes on international dimensions as more of this faux product appears throughout the USA and even in France. Stewart now introduces (or reintroduces) Emma, an outrageously zany London journalist,  who gets involved as the hunt turns sinister, with death, mystery and suspense stalking their efforts to bring down the conspirators.

Fraser needs to find out fast if it is the French wine growers cheating, or could it be the merchants in the French wine region ‘stretching’ the wine – Google it! - or is it something entirely different? The resulting exciting chase takes Bart across the USA and France in a frantic effort to expose the dastardly criminal gangsters. The action-packed climax is of breath-taking proportions, leading to the book having being optioned for a major movie release.

Stewart has written over a dozen books in the crime/thriller genre and, as he told foreign correspondent for the BBC and best-selling author, Humphrey Hawksley, “A reviewer of one of my previous books wrote, ‘he makes us think, but still entertains us.’ I aim to strike a happy balance between escapism and reality with my writing.”

Find out more about Douglas Stewart and his new protagonist, ‘Ratso’ on the website at http://www.douglasstewartbooks.com .