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?

San Francisco writer CJ Verburg is an award-winning playwright and theater director as well as the author of five international literature collections, two mystery series, and the art biography The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey. She started her literary career early, telling stories to stuffed animals. In her early teens she wrote her first novel and won her first playwriting prize. After graduating from Mount Holyoke College, where her first full-length play was staged (a rock-protest musical), she worked as a part-time cocktail waitress, proofreader, and boat builder. She became an in-house editor for publishers in Boston and San Francisco, then a freelance editorial consultant and writer. Navigating the noir side of publishing inspired her first Cory Goodwin mystery, Silent Night Violent Night. Its prequel, Another Number for the Road, wove live rock-&-roll into a French musical mystery tour. Meanwhile, she continued to create original theater projects with her Yarmouth Port neighbor and friend, the artist Edward Gorey. That collaboration triggered her multimedia e-memoir Edward Gorey On Stage and her Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod mystery novels and stories, including Croaked, Zapped, and Shafted, or The Toastrack Enigma.

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