Summer Mysteries

Holly Jackson is thrilled when she gets a chance to design costumes for Deadly Windows, a gothic mystery-drama to be given at the Black Mountain Theater in Colorado. Though she has been involved with several college productions, this is Holly’s first chance to work with an outside theater group. But her happiness fades when a real-life mystery confronts the entire theater company: Who is causing the mischief and bizarre “accidents”—the slashed pillows, the fire, the falling spotlight—that may keep the play from opening? Can it be one of the cast or crew? Or perhaps even Thad Butler, the play’s handsome, demanding director? Holly has fallen in love with Thad, but his strange, bitter moods sometimes terrify her.