Trouble is brewing for coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen when shes caught up in a storm - and murder - at a writers retreat. Brookhills coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen has reluctantly travelled north with her business partner Sarah Kingston and chef Tien Romano to cater a crime-writing retreat. Although Maggy is no fan of the outdoors Payne Lodges remote location deep in Wisconsins woods seems an ideal spot for their local writers group to plot the perfect murder. But even Maggy doesnt realize quite how perfect until a violent thunderstorm leaves the group stranded with no power or means of communication and the retreats organizer Kate McNamara is found dead in one of the guestrooms. Its no secret that Brookhills newspaper editor Kate delighted in stirring up trouble but which of their number hated the woman enough to travel nearly four hundred miles north to kill her?
