An old-fashioned murder
(Book)

"A Thomas Dunne book."

After losing her husband and her home Daisy McGovern moves in with her invalid mother at an old inn in southwestern Virginia. When the inn's eccentric proprietor, Aunt Emily, decides to throw a weekend party for a small group of friends and neighbors, everybody is excited-- until a winter storm approaches and one of the guests is crushed by an antique bookcase during the night. Was it murder? After the inn loses power and a second death occurs, it's clear to Daisy that one among them is a killer. Now she must unravel the truth before the party ends with her own funeral.