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.