The Murder of Muriel Lake — Shannon O'Cork

With her famous flair for high drama, Muriel Lake -- bestselling queen of the dime-store murder mystery -- chose the annual Writers of Mystery convention to announce her impending divorce from fellow mystery author Jonathan Pells. Hours later Muriel was dead, crushed by an avalanche of fallen books, one outstretched hand clutching a volume of her latest bestseller, Desperate, in a death grip.