Christmas week is approaching and the midwestern campus of Crosscreek University is quickly emptying. But two events disturb the holiday calm. First, Maisie Moffat. the town’s grande dame, finds herself without the money she had pledged to a new library built in her father’s memory. Her father’s odd will has puzzled the family and the town for years, but now the need to find what was promised in the estate becomes paramount. Maisie’s treasure hunt soon becomes the main topic of conversation in the community, as flyers promising a reward dot the bleak winter landscape. Then the attractive young English professor, Tom Donahue, is found frozen to death on a lonely highway on the outskirts of town. Will Gray begins to suspect that the sudden and tragic death of his colleague might not be entirely accidental. As he looks into Donahue’s life, he discovers some mysterious associations hidden deep in the other man’s past. Why had native son Donahue, now a sophisticated New Yorker, come back to the Midwest? What was the “Close Company of Perfect Strangers?” And who is the bizarre Poppy Ruth, who appears on the day Tom dies? Tragedy hits the campus again when a coed is murdered, and Will realizes that both victims were party to a secret that someone in the close-knit community wants to keep hidden. As Will looks into the facts, he finds that Maisie’s treasure hunt has unearthed a wide trail of deceit and avarice.

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