A murder begets a murder. Detective Winona Winthrop finds herself assigned to the murder of a university professor in Chicago. Three Polaroids and a cipher - the grave goods that accompanied the departed. A girl captured forever on the film. A cipher to be unlocked. Winona and her partner, Finn, work and walk the delicate game of high society. For here you solve today or wither away.
C.F. Forest is a writer of crime fiction novels, ciphers, and quips. Weaving words into clever mysteries to carry on the tradition of tale-telling. Forest draws from his residence in Chicago to write. For the city’s bright lights cast shadows.