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Trapped by a blizzard in Ladyhouse Abbey, Lori Shepherd is faced with a plot to steal a priceless family heirloom, an unstable caretaker, and the haunting presence of Lucasta, an enigmatic madwoman whose ghost lingers amid the house’s dark secrets.

Surprised that a newcomer to the Scottish highlands has remained steadfast to her new home in spite of an inhospitable winter, constable Hamish Macbeth learns that the woman has deluded herself into believing that she is engaged to a local artist, a situation that turns deadly when she is found poisoned.

The discovery of the body of a supposed runaway and the disappearance of another youngster in the rural town of Algonquin Bay force local cops John Cardinal and his new partner, Lisa Delorme, into a desperate search for a possible serial killer.

When a serial killer who leaves a blue ribbon at the site of his victims’ last sightings appears in the peaceful town of Cleary, North Carolina, police chief Dutch Burton finds the case complicated by his ex-wife’s disappearance during a blizzard.

This is a fictional chronicle of the real-life ordeal of nineteen men, women, and children cast adrift on an ice floe off the coast of Greenland in 1871, as they struggle with the harsh elements and with each other.

Fleeing the horrors of the Civil War by deserting, Brendan Kane joins the crew of the Narthex, an oddly shaped vessel, unaware that the ship’s intended destination is a mythic temperate paradise in the heart of the Arctic ice.

Describes the deadly 1888 snowstorm in the Great Plains that killed more than five hundred people, describing how the storm devastated immigrant families and dramatically affected pioneer advancement.

One month after her marriage to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant, judge Deborah Knott finds their situation tested when Bryant’s ex-wife takes flight with their eight-year-old son, forcing Bryant to launch a determined search to find the boy before he comes to harm.

Traveling to Vermont to attend her father-in-law’s birthday, caterer Faith Fairchild stumbles upon the dead body of a local lawyer and wonders if his death was accidental or intentional, in a case that is complicated by the disappearance of a ski slope resort’s star chef.

A moving tale of loss and transcendence follows the lives of five people, buffeted by life’s difficulties, who come together on a rundown estate house in Northern Scotland during a revelatory Winter Solstice.

When an American research team discovers a hidden Russian ice station in the frozen abyss of the polar ice cap, a frenzied dual cover-up takes place, trapping an Alaskan couple in the middle of a horrifying scientific experiment.

Escaping to the northern Michigan farmhouse of a middle-aged woman who lost her family in a tragic accident, Norman Haas, a member of a prison work detail, leaves her for dead when she tries to turn him in and embarks on a journey to his past, to the people who betrayed him.

Remembering the December afternoon twenty years earlier when her father and she found an abandoned infant in the snow, Nicky recalls her father’s efforts to escape society after a tragedy and a young woman’s struggles to live with her choices.

Clare Fergusson, the first female priest of an Episcopal church in Millers Kill, New York, finds herself immersed in murder when a newborn baby is abandoned and a young mother is brutally slain, forcing her to dig deeply into the town’s secret.

In the midst of a Minnesota blizzard, investigative reporter Rick Beanblossom searches for clues in the Lindbergh kidnapping that may help him find his own kidnapped son.

On the eve of a big snowman-building charity benefit in Minneapolis, two cops are shot and buried in the park as snowmen. Then another snowman corpse is found in rural Dundas County. Detectives Magozzi and Rolseth travel to Dundas County looking for a killer and a motive, while the computer gang at Monkeewrench seek clues on the Internet.