Iced
   Jenny Siler
  2001 A John Macrae Book/Henry Holt NY USA
   ISBN: 0805064389


When Clay Bennett's corpse is pulled from some frozen weeds the Missoula Cops think they have an open-and-shut case - a brawl gone awry. For repo woman Meg Gardner, intent on getting Bennett's Jeep back, it's the break she's been looking for. Trouble is someone else wants the auto too. In the dead of a bitter December night, Meg stumbles into a dangerous bunch of Russian thugs intent on messing with her mission.

Meg Gardner is a wily, unlikely kind of heroine. With an escutcheon besmirched by her parents' imploded marriage & her own dark deeds, she is a woman with skeletons rattling loudly in her closet & an unblinking appreciation for her hometown & predicament. She also has a lover who's too good for her & the chance for sublime domestic bliss. A chance two unusual & equally lethal opponents ruthlessly undermine.

This is one raucous, traveling, strange mystery. Who is threatening her & why? What does she know, what clues has she seen that she's not connected? Who are the Indians the cops have captured? Why is she being followed & by whom?

Bring out your sweater, put another log on the fire & settle in for a rip-snortin' whodunit in the dead of a Montana winter. Brrr - couldn't tell if I was shivering from the yarn or the cold!

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Do read my Interview with this lively author.
(01/28/01)

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