title: Murder in the Generative Kitchen
author:  Meg Pontecorvo 
description: A writer and artist dedicated to multiple genres, Meg Pontecorvo earned an MFA in Poetry Writing from Washington University in St. Louis and is a 2010 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. Meg has published a novelette, Grounded, in Asimovs, and her artwork in collage and pen has been featured in experimental video performances in the Bay Area. A native of Philadelphia, she grew up in the Midwest and now shares a small apartment with her partner and cats in San Francisco, where she cooks in a tech free kitchen.
zlib_text: **Manor of Dying**
  
  When decorator Meg Barrett travels to a remote mansion to help select period
  pieces for a new 1930s-style television mystery series, she’s chilled to learn
  that the manor was once a mental asylum and the site of a mysterious decades-
  old murder. And when a fierce blizzard knocks out the power and strands Meg
  and her cohorts in the home’s rickety old elevator, they emerge to discover
  that another person has been murdered—in the same macabre manner as the
  original victim.
  
  With a suspect list limited to those who were also stranded at the manor, Meg
  begins digging through their backgrounds for clues to both the old and new
  murder, trying to discover a connection that will lead her to the culprit’s
  identity. But the more she learns, the more clear it becomes that someone
  wants to keep the secrets of the past buried, and Meg knows she’ll have to
  watch her back before a ruthless killer decides to commit her to a grisly fate
  . . .
  
   **Title Page**
  
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