Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Chapter 1: The Avondale Resort

Chapter 2: The Corporate Retreat

Chapter 3: Stranded in Paradise

Chapter 4: The Guests Arrive

Chapter 5: The Island

Chapter 6: The Game Begins

Chapter 7: The Rules Redux

Chapter 8: The Magic Pellet Theory

Chapter 9: Shot with No Shot

Chapter 10: Tobacco Kills

Chapter 11: Nobody Likes Melon

Chapter 12: Scared or Spared

Chapter 13: High Die-ve

Chapter 14: Victim Two

Chapter 15: Green-Blooded American Man

Chapter 16: Heart of Glass

Chapter 17: Double Dose

Chapter 18: Going for the Gold

Chapter 19: High Die-ve Explained

Chapter 20: Human Lobster

Chapter 21: Victims Three and Four

Chapter 22: Human Stock

Chapter 23: Stay Puft Corpses

Chapter 24: An Easy Decision

Chapter 25: A Storm Approaches

Chapter 26: How to Poach Human

Chapter 27: Black Widow

Chapter 28: Victim Five

Chapter 29: Bed of Roses

Chapter 30: Spider Bites

Chapter 31: Arachnophobia

Chapter 32: A Day at the Beach

Chapter 33: One-Card Monte

Chapter 34: Collective Defeat

Chapter 35: Snake Ice

Chapter 36: Victim Six

Chapter 37: Cocktail Hour, Interrupted

Chapter 38: Like Gutting a Deer

Chapter 39: Bloody Mary

Chapter 40: A Candle’s Flame

Chapter 41: Pet Food

Chapter 42: Human Cannonball

Chapter 43: Victim Seven

Chapter 44: Blood that Moves

Chapter 45: Spinal Tap

Chapter 46: Cannibal Bloodbath

Chapter 47: Early Thanksgiving

Chapter 48: The Final Show and Tell

Chapter 49: The Ghost Town Resort

Chapter 50: The Armory Suite

Chapter 51: Three Paths in a Wood Diverge

Chapter 52: Whitney

Chapter 53: Cliff

Chapter 54: Cathy

Chapter 55: Treasure Hunts

Chapter 56: Death Discovered

Chapter 57: Whodunnit?

Chapter 58: Sudden Rule Changes

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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