"Someone wants Dr. Ruth Eddleman to stay away from the Westerly Library where she's been mentoring a group of local mystery writers. Her workshops have progressed innocently enough until one of the authors, Bartleby Schnelling, goes missing, but not before leaving the professor a cryptic warning. Ruth asks her friend, Detective Kara Langley, to investigate Schnelling's disappearance. When his body is discovered under the ice in Wilcox Park's skating pond, Kara must uncover the reasons for his murder. She becomes convinced someone did not want to see his spy novel published. But was this enough motive to kill? Members of the workshop become prime suspects as she delves into their private lives and the backgrounds of the murder plots they are hatching between the covers of their books. As the killer becomes more desperate, Kara realizes she must unravel the clues before Ruth becomes the next victim."--,back cover.