Hide & Seek

You can have your cake and eat it, too. A fun story that examines the nature of guilt, Hide & Seek is a murder mystery in which we know the identity of the murderer, and not the identity of the detective.

This mystery-within-a-mystery involves the murder of a beautiful young actress, Melanie Carson, in Boston. The narrator, David Draper, a jealous boyfriend, terrified he has murdered her, scrambles to cover his tracks.

When his sister invites him to Cape Cod for a murder weekend at an old New England courthouse-turned inn, David discovers that someone is rigging the game mystery to mimic the actual murder of Melanie, in order to trap Melanie's murderer. David must then race against time and his own paranoia--getting embroiled along the way in secret attic seductions, the discovery of an arsonist's plot, and murder for revenge--to figure out who is the real detective among the guests, before the detective discovers that David is the murderer. It is a murder mystery in reverse--we "know" the murderer and don't know the detective--and David's shocking, final deduction fits all the pieces together in a fiery, dramatic conclusion.

Read excerpts from my latest novel, Memoirs of a Shape-Shifter, now available through Kepler Press.