Troy Chance, a reporter, is covering
the building of the Ice Palace on Flower Lake outside Lake Placid
when a body is found frozen in the ice. Troy knows the person. Toblin
Winslow was the boyfriend of one of her roommates, Jasseymn. Her boss
at the newspaper asks her to write a piece about finding the body. At
first, she declines feeling she's too close to the situation, but
when the reporter assigned the task ends up writing a possibly
actionable piece and implicates Jassemyn; she gets involved.
The best part of the book was the
atmospheric setting. The author did an excellent job of making the
cold and loneliness of the Adirondacks in winter come alive. The
atmosphere of Lake Placid and Saranac, where ski bums mingle with
tourists, was very realistic. I could feel as if I had been there.
The characters and mystery are not as
strong as the atmosphere and the minor characters. Tory manages to
get extremely involved with the family of the dead man. Without
really intending to, she's set on the course of solving the mystery.
It was almost solving the mystery by accident.
The minor characters are well drawn.
This is another plus for the book. They added color and texture.
At times the writing became rather
pedestrian giving us information about the setting we didn't need. I
think anyone living in the United States and probably other parts of
the world is familiar with McDonalds and Wendys.
I recommend this book if you like
atmospheric mysteries. It's probably best if it's snowing outside and
you're wrapped up in a warm quilt by the fire.
I reviewed this book for the Amazon Vine Program.
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