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after Her Last Adventure, Bailey Weggins Is One Tired Reporter In Need Of R & R. So When An Old Family Friend Invites Her For A Free Weekend At The Cedar Inn In Rural Massachusetts, She Jumps At The Chance To Leave Manhattan For Some Major Pampering. at The Elegant Mid-nineteenth-century Hideaway, With Its Asian-inspired Spa, Bailey Is Soon Luxuriating To The Hypnotic Sound Of Water Spilling Over Stones And The Soothing Scent Of Green-tea Candles. Yet Mayhem Is Mere Steps Away, As Bailey Discovers When She Literally Stumbles Across A Corpse Wrapped Mummy-style In A Treatment Room. suddenly, Her Time-out Is Transformed Into A Full-tilt Murder Investigation. Desperate To Help Her Mother's Friend, The Owner Of The Spa, Bailey Will Find Herself Chasing Clues Across State Lines Just As Another Death Sweeps Her Into The Sights Of A Vicious Killer. And This Time, The Body In The Mud Wrap Could Be Her Own. publishers Weekly bailey Weggins, The Heroine Of Cosmo Editor-in-chief White's Bestselling Debut, If Looks Could Kill (2002), Proves That Her Sleuthing Ability Was No Fluke In This Solid Follow-up. Depressed By Her Nonexistent Love Life, Bailey, A Freelance True-crime Writer For Gloss Magazine, Leaves Manhattan For Some R&r At The Cedar Inn And Spa In Warren, Mass., Owned And Run By An Old Friend Of Her Mother's. Her First Night There, However, She Stumbles On The Corpse Of One Of The Inn's Female Therapists-wrapped In Silver Mylar Paper. Anna Cole's Murder, On Top Of The Accidental Death Of A Male Client Months Earlier, Could Spell Doom For The Inn, Unless Bailey Can Get To The Bottom Of Things. Meanwhile, Jack Herlihy, The Smooth Shrink From Her Prior Outing, Surfaces With A Plausible Excuse For His Earlier Disappearing Act, While Dashing Jeffrey Beck, The Local Detective Who's Looking Into Anna's Murder, Also Attracts, Despite His Cool Professional Demeanor. Bailey Bravely Deals With Threats (a Dead Mouse Wrapped In Mylar In The Mail), Deftly Pu