The snow is deep in Maineβs Busmanβs 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 arrivesβheating up February with an unexpected case of murder . . .
Inside the mystery package is an enormous black diamond necklace that once belonged to Juliaβs great-grandmother and disappeared in the 1920s. Who could have sent itβand why? Juliaβs search for clues takes her on a perilous journey through her motherβs troubled family history, from a squabble over the family fortune in βfrozen waterβ to the recent unexplained death of Jacquelineβs long-lost cousin Hughβwhoβd been missing and presumed drowned for more than forty years. To protect her motherβs inheritance, Julia must fend off a small army of feuding relatives, solve the mystery surrounding Hughβs demise, and get back home before the next blizzard buries them all . . .
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