Cory Goodwin and Lilah Darnell were rebels and comrades-in-arts at Mount Holyoke College. Now Cory's a Boston journalist and a discreet private sleuth, and Lilah's the trophy wife of wealthy science publisher Bruce Easton. The mystery is why Lilah, a talented sculptor leading a charmed life, is desperate for Cory to visit her waterfront Connecticut home. At the Eastons' posh Christmas party for A-list authors and staff, Cory spots a scoop. Harvard biologist Henry Howrigan is rumored to be involved in a brewing conflict--but with whom? Does Olive Chute hope to lure him away to run Chute Labs? Will rising star Jeff Abels edge him out? Is Jeff sleeping with Bruce's secretary? Is Bruce sleeping with Henry's editor, Melinda Doerr? Were any of them involved in the drowning last summer of Bruce's son? A blizzard strands the party overnight--including the drunk and uninvited Tony Cyr, Melinda's ex-husband and Bruce's ex-partner. When a string of nasty pranks turns fatal, it's up to Cory--daughter of NY detective Archie Goodwin, and the group's only outsider--to trap the killer.

Silent Night Violent Night: a Cory Goodwin Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Verburg, CJ

Mystery

Boom-Books

Summer on Cape Cod! While tourists swarm the beaches and malls, Quansett locals meet for Tooner Sallid or Egz Bennie at Leo’s Back End. Inventor Pam Nash bursts into this sanctuary like an IED. Can her fellow genius, the reclusive artist Edgar Rowdey, save Zappa? Her revolutionary new “Taser for pacifists” is set to debut at a waterfront lawn party this Saturday. But Pam’s daughter Ashley, scared out of Las Vegas by death threats, is on her way home to turn 21. How do you add a birthday party to a VIP weapon launch? Leo’s sous-chefs, ex-Fix-It Chick Lydia Vivaldi and Wampanoag Mudge Miles, grab the chance to cater. But when Lydia discovers a reveler dead in the water, Edgar is forced to turn from guest into sleuth.

Zapped: An Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mystery (Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mysteries)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

400 years after the "First Thanksgiving," a business lunch for leaders of GreenHome LLC and the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe leads to murder. Or does it? Stopping at a yard sale on their way to Leo's Back End, property developer Harriet Benbow beat out two of her fellow guests in a squabble over a silver Art Deco toastrack. The next morning she's found dead. Payback? A burglary gone wrong? A violent protest against GreenHome's plan to build luxury condos on an indigenous burial ground? 
Detective Pete Altman wonders: What kind of perp would cut up the victim's scalp? Back End soup-chef Lydia Vivaldi and Wampanoag pastry chef Mudge Miles wonder: Is somebody trying to frame the Indians? Reclusive artist-author Edgar Rowdey, who's busy plotting his own mystery for Golden Age magazine, wonders: Where on earth does an antique toastrack fit in? 
In this picturesque seaside village, solving a crime takes collaboration. Quansett is too diverse for everyone to like each other -- natives and wash-ashores, fishermen and artists, Irish, Brazilian, English, Cape Verdean, Wampanoag, African-Americans -- but it's so small that everyone has to get along. This brutal attack threatens to shatter their community. Lydia hopes it won't also sink her catering start-up with Mudge. With the grapevine buzzing, and the police slogging through mismatched clues, suspects, lies, and betrayals, she's afraid not even the Back End's amateur sleuths can untangle this one in time to stop the killer.

Shafted, or The Toastrack Enigma: An Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mystery (Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mysteries)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

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