How far should friends go when one of the group vanishes? Everyone who frequented the Oakwood retirement community’s dining room knew that Tuesday evenings meant the six ladies who always sat at their special table would liven things up with their laughter and conversation. They called them the Tuesday Table Ladies but on one particular Tuesday, something seemed very wrong. One of the six was missing and the five at dinner that evening appeared unusually subdued. “Where’s Laura?” begins when Laura Lambert is missing from her regular weekly dinner engagement, causing her five anxious friends to fear the worst. Set in an historic neighborhood near the Chesapeake Bay, the situation grows from a hesitant check of Laura’s apartment to a complex and menacing mystery as Robert Symonds, a former foreign service officer, is drawn in to assist the Tuesday Table Ladies. Octavia Long is the pseudonym for eight women who dine together every Tuesday at Longwood at Oakmont, a community of retirees in western Pennsylvania. One evening, one of them failed to appear for dinner. “Where’s Muriel? Could something have happened to her?” After a search, she was found. That was the inspiration for the idea of a mystery entitled Where’s Laura? written by the Tuesday Table Ladies.

The Tuesday Table Ladies have returned, with all the force of the winter blizzard that blankets their Active retirement community. Conversations at their Tuesday dinners are even more intense than usual as the friends begin to collaborate on a mystery novel and explore the intricacies of online dating. Real-life intervenes when a jewel thief burglarizes one of their neighbors and their friend Robert Symonds, a former foreign service officer, is suspected of murder. There is much speculation about the identity of the jewel thief, but the Tuesday Table Ladies are more than certain that the gossips are dead wrong. Meanwhile, Robert enlists their help in proving his innocence as the evidence tying him to the death of a mysterious Russian in a Washington D.C. hotel room begins to pile up. As Winter Comes moves to a conclusion, the three stories the jewel robbery, the murder in Washington, and the fictional thriller being written swirl around each other much like the blowing snow.