Sometimes being the talk of the town isn’t a good thing… In fact, it can be murder. One day during the spring thaw, Candice Rothberg gets a chilling call from the police. The dairy farmer who leases some of her property has stumbled across a body, and one of her employees is a person of interest in the case. Rumors run wild in the small town of Lake Marion, Michigan, and Candice finds herself defending her employee while facing her own doubts. Can she solve a weeks-old murder when the police can’t? And will she like the answer if she does?