num_pages: 277
description: How to become the life of the party? First survive the celebration Rare books and antiquities expert Brooklyn Wainwright is thrilled to be invited to the fiftieth birthday party of her neighbor Suzies aunt Grace. A retired founder of a major video game corporation Grace is a larger-than-life character whos turned her Lake Tahoe mansion into a fun house full of everything from pinball machines and giant props to secret passageways and trap doors. Brooklyn is most excited to catalog Graces extensive collection of rare paperback pulp fiction.Part of the fun involves a sance but after the lights flicker one guest is dead poisoned by a cocktail intended for Grace. It seems someone is determined to turn Graces playful palatial estate into a house of horrors. Brooklyn suspects the key to the killers identity may lie in the roman  clef Grace has written about her life. With Grace in great peril must-read takes on a whole new meaning as Brooklyn tries to stop a murderer whos through playing around 
language: English
title: Peril in Paperback
publisher: NAL/Penguin Publishing Group