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When Mabel stumbles across a corpse in the freezer at work, she can't believe her eyes. No really, she's never seen anything like it. Surreal and fascinating are the words that keep rolling around in her head. It's too bad (for him) that her detective boyfriend doesn't want her meddling in his investigation. Also unfortunate (for him) that Mabel Frye isn't a very good listener––at least not when there's a murderer in her midst. ______________________________________________ It's recommended you read Mabel Frye: Accident Private Eye books in order as each builds on characters and events ...

Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.

As a native of the small town of Hansonville, North Carolina,and a wilderness rescue worker, Raine Stockton knows the Smoky Mountains as well as anyone could, but she gave up her Search and Rescue work after a tragic loss. Now she reluctantly returns to active duty to help find a young child who has been kidnapped and taken deep into the forest.