Too often guys in pickup trucks drive on the ice of Lake Pepin before
it's thick enough to hold their vehicles. A little drinking is usually
one of the underlying causes of this stupid move. But Buck was tied to
the driver's seat, and that makes it murder. Claire Watkins knows that
Buck's been seeing Stephanie Klaus, and she knows Stephanie has been
beaten. Does that mean Stephanie had something to do with his death? It
wouldn't be the first time a battered woman has struck back with deadly
force.
All things considered, Claire hasn't been having a good time, generally,
and things were beginning to look as threatening as the winter clouds.
Then Stephanie is found beaten again and it's all too clear that Buck
wasn't responsible for the abuse; did that mean that whoever was is the
murderer? Would she be able to get Stephanie to trust her and tell her
what she needed to know before there was another corpse?
Then a bad storm blows in on the winter solstice bringing four feet of
snow, howling winds, no power, closed roads, and a message that gives
Claire all she needs to know-except how to get to the killer and stop
him.