Crafts and Life

The rented house was supposed to be a relaxing getaway. But Jill and her companions feel a sense of danger instead. First, they learn that their hosts’ son had a fiancée, but her disappearance remains unexplained—and then they meet some menacing members of a local trail-riding club. When one of Jill and Greg’s friends finds human remains amid the dunes—with a diamond ring around one mummified finger—things start heating up fast, and they’ll be thankful just to survive through the long weekend . . .

I like the Tourist Trap novellas as they fill in some back stories, or just add something to the full stories, and this one does a bit of both.

Jill and Greg along with the tea shop owner Kathi and her boyfriend Blake have arrived at a rental cabin for the Thanksgiving weekend (a long weekend in their cases – the rest of the party will be arriving on the morning of Thanksgiving and staying over before they all head out), they meet up with a group they would like to avoid, especially as one of the group seems fixated on Kathi. The next day when they go dune buggying Blake and Kathi's buggy takes a tumble … that would be bad enough but Kathi comes face to hand with a mummified in sand corpse!

Now much as Greg would like to leave this to the local law enforcement he has the feeling they have fixated on one person and haven't considered anything or anyone else … as much as Greg hates it he needs Jill's help, especially when they discover another girl had disappeared in the area and it looks as though Kathi could be next!