Nobody surprises—or unsettles—readers quite like DeAnna Knippling, veteran author of over 80 books. Sharp-eyed mystery writer Liz Hicks seethes in the wreckage of her Colorado mountain home—books and knickknacks scattered everywhere, thunder shaking the tarped-up windows, the house heavy with the smell of spilled cleaning supplies and the lingering ghost of a leather motorcycle jacket nobody wears anymore. The burglars only took one thing from the chaos: her dead husband's carved longhorn skull. And to Liz's grief-poisoned, plot-twisty instincts, the "e;accident"e; that killed him still reeks of something stronger. Murder. A cunning, wicked cozy mystery about the dark side of nice people.

Nobody surprises—or unsettles—readers quite like DeAnna Knippling, veteran author of over 80 books. Sharp-eyed mystery writer Liz Hicks seethes in the wreckage of her Colorado mountain home—books and knickknacks scattered everywhere, thunder shaking the tarped-up windows, the house heavy with the smell of spilled cleaning supplies and the lingering ghost of a leather motorcycle jacket nobody wears anymore. The burglars only took one thing from the chaos: her dead husband's carved longhorn skull. And to Liz's grief-poisoned, plot-twisty instincts, the "e;accident"e; that killed him still reeks of something stronger. Murder. A cunning, wicked cozy mystery about the dark side of nice people.

Nobody surprises—or unsettles—readers quite like DeAnna Knippling, veteran author of over 80 books. Sharp-eyed mystery writer Liz Hicks seethes in the wreckage of her Colorado mountain home—books and knickknacks scattered everywhere, thunder shaking the tarped-up windows, the house heavy with the smell of spilled cleaning supplies and the lingering ghost of a leather motorcycle jacket nobody wears anymore. The burglars only took one thing from the chaos: her dead husband's carved longhorn skull. And to Liz's grief-poisoned, plot-twisty instincts, the "e;accident"e; that killed him still reeks of something stronger. Murder. A cunning, wicked cozy mystery about the dark side of nice people.