When WhiteNight, one of the top publishing companies in the world sets up a writing retreat for six of their best-selling, mystery authors, it seems like a wonderful way to reward their biggest money makers. Paul Blake, Avery Banes and Lily Starr have more accolades and awards than most authors combined. They’re joined by Vincent Hawk, Rocco Staboli and the new hot-shot Jimmy Joyce Jr, and within hours’ cracks begin to appear. Meanwhile, dead bodies start piling up and the writers themselves become suspects in a real-life murder mystery. They all write about gruesome murders, but does that mean any of them is actually capable of it themselves?

There were six in the bed, when the little one said…