Death by Noir

Barclay Flint is the eccentric proprietor of The Bottle Bank wine shop in Lewes, the small Sussex town renowned for its annual Bonfire Night festival. Barclay can taste a kaleidoscopic universe in a single glass of wine - and will delight in luring you to share in its charms. Barclay passes his days happily matching his customers to the wines of their dreams, but when his friend, struggling regenerative vineyard owner Victor Crawshaw, goes missing, Barclay falls under suspicion and must deploy his wine detection skills to crack the case and clear his name. As the clock ticks down to Bonfire Night''s epic festival of flames, the fireworks might not be all that start exploding... Death by Noir is the first of The Bottle Bank Mysteries, a series of charming and warm-hearted crime novels by beloved UK wine expert, Olly Smith.

About the author

Olly Smith is the UK's best-loved wine expert, with 19 years' presenting wine on BBC One's Saturday Kitchen. With a background in screenwriting, Olly has written about wine as the wine columnist for the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday and has six award-winning Glass House wine bars across P&O Cruises fleet. He has won numerous awards in the wine and screenwriting industries. Olly has appeared on primetime shows including House of Games, Celebrity Mastermind and The Wheel and is a familiar voice across BBC Radio.

Product details

• Authors: Olly Smith, Smith Olly
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 18.06.2026
• EAN: 9781399829847
• ISBN: 978-1-399-82984-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: The Bottle Bank Mysteries
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / Culinary, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Comical (humorous) crime and mystery