Abstract:
Two bitterly cold mornings in late March, two men dead on the shores of Crooked Lake. One is known to many lake residents as an unlucky loser. The other is known to no one around the lake. Are these two murders unrelated, no more than a puzzling coincidence? Or is there a shared secret in the victims’ past which has led to their murder decades later? The sheriff’s search for the truth is violently and almost fatally interrupted, but with the timely help of her husband, this most troubling of her cases is finally solved.