**An ambitious screenwriter tries to solve her friend's disappearance by
re-creating their fateful final girls' trip in this riveting locked-room
mystery from the author of All Dressed Up.
**
It should have been the perfect spring break: Five girlfriends. A remote
winery on the Oregon coast. An infinite supply of delicious wine at
their manicured fingertips. But then their center--beautiful, magnetic
Vanessa Morales--vanished without a trace.
Emily Fischer was perhaps the last person to see her alive. But now,
years later, Emily spots Vanessa's doppelganger at a local café. At the
end of her rope working a lucrative yet mind-numbing gig on a network
sitcom, Emily is inspired to finally tell the story that's been
percolating inside her for so long: Vanessa's story. But first, she
needs to know what really happened on that fateful night. So she puts a
brilliant scheme into motion.
She gets the girls together for a reunion weekend at the scene of the
crime under the guise of reconnecting. There's Brittany, Vanessa's
cousin and the inheritor of the winery; Paige, a former athlete, bullish
yet easily manipulated; and Lydia, the wallflower of the group.
One of them knows the truth. But what have they each been hiding? And
how much can Emily trust anything she learns from them . . . or even her
own memories of Vanessa's last days?
Suspenseful, propulsive, and interspersed with scenes from Emily's
blockbuster screenplay, Scenes of the Crime is an unforgettable
mystery that examines culpability, the shiny rearview mirror of
Hollywood storytelling, and the pitfalls of female friendship.
