The snow is deep in Maine’s Busman’s 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
arrives—heating up February with an unexpected case of
murder . . .
Inside the mystery package is an enormous black diamond
necklace that once belonged to Julia’s great-grandmother and
disappeared in the 1920s. Who could have sent it—and why?
Julia’s search for clues takes her on a perilous journey
through her mother’s troubled family history, from a
squabble over the family fortune in “frozen water” to the
recent unexplained death of Jacqueline’s long-lost cousin
Hugh—who’d been missing and presumed drowned for more than
forty years. To protect her mother’s inheritance, Julia must
fend off a small army of feuding relatives, solve the
mystery surrounding Hugh’s demise, and get back home before
the next blizzard buries them all . . .