Crafts and Life

When book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright temporarily relocates to her parents’ place in Northern California, she finds that wooden barrels aren’t the only things buried in the wine caves of Sonoma….
 
Excited to explore the secrets of wine country, Brooklyn attends an excavation of the caves hidden deep under her parents’ commune—and the findings are explosive. A room is unearthed, and it contains a treasure trove of artwork, rare books, a chest of jewelry…and a perfectly mummified body.
 
A closer examination of the murdered man’s possessions reveals a valuable first edition of Jules Verne’s A Journey to the Center of the Earth. Hidden in the book is a secret map that unveils an even greater hoard of treasures brought to California by French winemakers fleeing the Nazi invasion with the commune leader’s grandfather, Anton, among them.
 
As reporters and art appraisers flock to Sonoma to see the precious bounty, questions begin to rise—did Anton hide these items to protect them, or did he steal them for himself? Who is the mysterious man left for dead inside the cave? But not all crime is buried in the past. When a new presence threatens the town’s peace, Brooklyn decides to do a little excavating of her own and solve the mystery of the treasure before anyone else is written off.…

Brooklyn and Derek are renting the house next to her parents whilst the owners are away for three months and whilst building work is done on Brooklyn and Derek's apartment (Derek bought the apartment next to Brooklyn's and they are knocking the two of them together to make one large apartment.)

Whilst they are in Dharma (the commune – very RICH commune that Brooklyn's parents live in as founder members) the wine caves are too be extended to allow for a better wine tasting area, so a crowd gathers to see them start off – after only a few minutes though the mechanical digger breaks through into a hidden room crammed with furniture, candlesticks, silverware etc!  Oh and unfortunately a dead body….. Brooklyn, Derek and Gabriel need to find out who the corpse is, why all the furniture is there and what does it mean for Dharma and Guru Bob?