Book Blurb Friday: open window

Lisa Ricard Claro, on her blog Writing in the Buff, hosts Book Blurb Friday, one of my favorite memes. Each week, she posts a photo and asks us to imagine it is the cover of a book. Then, she says we are to:

Write a book jacket blurb (150 words or less) so enticing that potential readers would feel compelled to buy the book.

Below is this week's "book cover" offered for our creative blurbs by the talented Sandra Davies at Lines of Communication.

(NB— Sandra says she doesn't think it's likely I'm related to her husband, even though we have the same last name. Below is my submission to this week's Book Blurb Friday. — K)

The open window reflected, not the multicolored maple leaves, but a vacant building and, with it, the shape of a skull.

What did it mean? wondered the crime scene investigator.

The window wouldn’t have been left open on a chilly autumn day, not with the radiator set to the maximum. And yet there was no way anyone would have chosen the window as an exit, with its narrow sill and its sharp drop to the paving stones far below.

Renowned BBF author Minnie Cooper has once more outdone herself in this novel of crime, suspense and, yes, horror.

98 words