It Was a Dark and Stormy Night — Karen Hayes

Copper Penny is upset because it is Saturday morning and her usually very dependable sales associate, Monica, has not yet shown up for work at the BookNook. No one has seen or heard from Monica since she left a bridal shower for her best friend the night before to walk the half block or so to her apartment. Then her boyfriend is discovered unconscious, and with a broken leg and shattered kneecap, in the woods near his home. He had had a little too much to drink and had tripped and he distinctly remembers having fallen on a body when he tripped. But the body is bot there when he is found. Was it Monica's body? And if so, where is it?To make matters worse, a dense fog has caused a multi-car pileup and the sheriff and medical examiner are up to their eyeballs in work. When the missing body is finally located (Trevor wasn't just making it up), it is up to Copper to help the overwhelmed sheriff figure out who did it. Was it one of guests at the bachelor party? Or someone who lives along the edge of the woods? This is a small community where everyone has known everyone else all their lives. How could one of their own do such a thing? And why?