The snow is deep in Maineโs Busmanโs Harbor and the mighty rivers are covered in ice. Snowden Family Clambake Company proprietor Julia Snowden and her mother, Jacqueline, are hunkered down for the winter when a mysterious package arrivesโheating up February with an unexpected case of murder . . .
Inside the mystery package is an enormous black diamond necklace that once belonged to Juliaโs great-grandmother and disappeared in the 1920s. Who could have sent itโand why? Juliaโs search for clues takes her on a perilous journey through her motherโs troubled family history, from a squabble over the family fortune in โfrozen waterโ to the recent unexplained death of Jacquelineโs long-lost cousin Hughโwhoโd been missing and presumed drowned for more than forty years. To protect her motherโs inheritance, Julia must fend off a small army of feuding relatives, solve the mystery surrounding Hughโs demise, and get back home before the next blizzard buries them all . . .
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