1. [n]  a lively entertainment spot
2. [n]  a point of intense heat or radiation
3. [n]  a place of political unrest and potential violence; "the United States cannot police all of the world's hot spots"

Hot Spot
One of the guests turns up dead--an accident or murder--thanks to an electrical malfunction at the wedding reception that Mark Manning is hosting for his best friend, Roxanne Exner, and her fiancT, Carl Creighton, the Democratic candidate for governor of Illinois, in peaceful Dumont, Wisconsin.

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