Marjorie Trumaine, a freelance indexer from rural North Dakota in the
1960s, risks her life to help local law enforcement track down a
missing, disabled girl. Dickinson, North Dakota, 1965. It's a harsh
winter, and freelance indexer Marjorie Trumaine struggles to complete a
lengthy index while mourning the recent loss of her husband, Hank. The
bleakness of the weather seems to compound her grief, and then she gets
more bad news: a neighbor's fourteen-year-old disabled daughter, Tina
Rinkerman, has disappeared. Marjorie joins Sheriff Guy Reinhardt in the
search for the missing girl, and their investigation quickly leads to
the shocking discovery of a murdered man near the Rinkermans' house.
What had he been doing there? Who would have wanted him dead? And, above
all, is his murder connected to Tina's disappearance? Their pursuit of
answers will take Marjorie all the way to the Grafton State School, some
six hours away, where Tina lived until recently. And the information she
uncovers there raises still more questions. Will the murderer come after
Marjorie now that she knows a long-hidden secret?