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The Blurb
It’s the dead of winter in Minnesota, and Shay O’Hanlon can’t wait to close up her coffee shop and get out of town with her girlfriend, Minneapolis cop JT Bordeaux. But when she receives a call informing her that her dad is missing, Shay’s plans for a romantic getaway are put on ice.
Figuring her dad is on one of his periodic benders, Shay is shocked to learn that his gun has been used in a murder. With the dead man found in a giant ice cube unable to provide any answers, Shay and her quirky friends are bound and deter- mined to find her father―and the real killer―before the trail turns cold.
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“Once again, Chandler writes a great story with yet more emotional elements for Shay to deal with. She doesn’t want to believe her father killed that man, but she has to admit she doesn’t know what he’d do if he was in a drunken rage. This dilemma gave the story a great gritty edge that I really enjoyed. Shay has to face up to a lot of issues around her father and their relationship, but as I’ve come to expect from Chandler, this is handled with just the right amount of emotion without over-schmaltzing it. I also got to see more of Shay’s alter-ego, her ‘Tenacious Protector’ mode, which kicks in whenever one of her loved ones is threatened, and it goes into overdrive in this story. She has moments where she becomes quite aggressive, and that side of her I hadn’t really seen before. It was an interesting addition to her character.” A. L. Brooks from Rainbow Book Reviews
“Jessie Chandler’s latest Shay O’Hanlon adventure is as sharp as a frigid winter day. A body in a block of ice meant for the Winter Carnival Ice Palace is just the beginning of this wild luge ride as Shay sorts through the clues to clear her father of murder. Like a luge, there are twists and turns throughout, but Jessie saves the bigest twist for (quite literally) the last few seconds. Highly recommended.”―John Gaspard, author of The Eli Marks Mysteries