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 arrivesheating 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 itand 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 Hughwho'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

Praise for Iced Under

';The past and present collide in ways that are just as heart wrenching as they are heartwarming, and the genuine emotions they stir will satisfy fans of these exceptional novels.'Kings River Life Magazine

';Another excellent installment of what Im starting to consider the quintessential cozy cooking mystery series. Such is Barbara Ross's skill that you buy wholeheartedly into Julia and feel that this is a genuine representation of one persons life, incidental corpses and all.'Criminal Element