In college, Cory Goodwin and Lilah Darnell were rebel artists. Now Cory's a Boston-based freelance journalist, and Lilah's the trophy wife of wealthy publisher Bruce Easton. When Lilah calls with a surprise invitation to Caxton Press's posh Christmas party, Cory hears a cry for help. She also smells a scoop. It's rumored that Harvard's top biologists are hotly competing for two prizes: a lucrative book contract and the directorship of Chute Labs. The major players in both battles will be at the Eastons' party. But as Cory's crossing Connecticut, a snowstorm sends her car skidding off the road. Her nameless rescuer turns up later that night at the Eastons' door: Tony Cyr, former editor of Caxton Press. Uninvited and drunk, he's accused by Bruce Easton of staging a string of nasty practical jokes that threaten to ruin the evening. Tony observes these are the same guests who were here last summer when Bruce's son drowned in the pond. Coincidence? Now everyone wants to leave; but in this blizzard, no one can. When the pranks escalate to murder, it's up to Cory?daughter of a private detective, and the only outsider?to uncover the truth: is Tony an ally, as he claims, or a killer?

CJ Verburg is an award-winning playwright and director and the author of best-selling books including 5 international anthologies (Bedford/St. Martin's). She wrote her first prize-winning play at 16 and her second, a full-length rock musical, in 1968. As a Cape Codder for 15+ years, she helped found the Provincetown Playwrights' Lab and headed theater companies in Provincetown, Bourne, and Cotuit. Meanwhile, as a freelance science editor and writer, she worked on projects from Powers of Ten (Scientific American Library) to Ghosts in the Mind's Machine (Norton). Her multimedia memoir Edward Gorey Plays Cape Cod, and her Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod mystery series (starting with Croaked and Zapped), grew out of her long collaboration on theatrical and other adventures with her neighbor and friend, the artist and author Edward Gorey. Verburg's plays include The Whistling Pig, Lady Day in Love, and Spin, or Twilight of the Bohemians (winner of the Ashland New Plays Festival). Her Cory Goodwin mystery series (starting with Silent Night Violent Night and Another Number for the Road) stars the international journalist daughter of Rex Stout's NY private eye Archie Goodwin.

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