By Wendy Clinch
Heavy snow is falling on Spruce top whilst Stacey Curtis returns in her moment snowboarding secret. Hollywood has-been Harper Stone arrives in Stacey’s little Vermont city to shoot a mouthwash advertisement, and he’s faraway from satisfied approximately it. whilst the actor turns up dead—and the final individual to work out him alive is Brian Russell, Stacey’s jealous ex-fianc?—Stacey can’t aid yet get entangled.
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Stacey cracked open the rear door at the Broken Binding and looked out into the darkness. Back at the bar the après-ski crowd had dwindled to nothing and the suppertime crowd hadn’t arrived yet, so the pressure was off for a little while. She shivered, shut the door, and went back down the hall to the walk-in cooler to grab a case of Magic Hat and warm up a little. The restaurant was a long, low-slung place spread out along the main drag from Connecticut, just at the edge of town. Like every other ski-town eatery in the Green Mountain State, it had a past.
The TV crew made all the progress they could make while the going was good—the skies went gray around noon and the snow that blew in wasn’t all that impenetrable until one thirty or two, so they had a couple of hours to grab the shots they’d been waiting for—and they were about half done when the weather closed in tight and they had to fold up for the day. The gray-haired and black-clad director—a hired gun from New York named Manny Seville, whom Karen Pruitt had worked with before on a chewing gum commercial that never aired—invited everybody over to his Trail’s End condo later on to look at what they’d gotten.
She named the size she needed and he all but hissed. Ultimately she found the skis herself and brought them back to the counter and explained somehow that she wanted to give him money in exchange for them. He sighed and growled and shook his head, generally acting as though this was the worst thing that had happened to him all day. Like having to sell a pair of skis was the one thing that he was afraid might occur when he opened the doors that morning, and now here it was. The worst possible outcome of his day at work.