The Fisks' weekend party, a "sleep-over" for select couples, remains the talk of Newbury, Connecticut, long after Reg Hopkins' body turned up in an isolated covered bridge. It appears Reg may have paid the party a fleeting visit-before dying in a way everyone swears was impossible. So Realtor Ben Abbott takes up the matter with a hometown cast of friends, foes, and family-including his ninety-year-old Aunt Connie, the rising politician and his sometime lover Vicky McLachlan, the comely and ambitious State Police Detective Marian Boyce, and a pair of deadly housebreakers. Soon everybody's getting "kicks" they never bargained for. Praise for StoneDust... "In a field of fiction overrun with middle-aged boys and girls at play, let's call Ben Abbott] an unreconstructed grown-up." -The New York Times Book Review "Edgar-nominee Scott delivers another literate, witty and absorbing mystery... a] simmering tale of money, sex and drugs in picturesque Newbury." -Publishers Weekly "A refreshingly fun, involving mystery that will remind some of Harold Adams' fine Carl Wilcox series." -Booklist Justin Scott has written 24 novels, mostly under his own name, and five modern sea stories under his pen name, Paul Garrison. He has been twice nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America. http: //seastoriesbypaulgarrison.com