Skalka divides her time between Milwaukee and Door County, Wisconsin. Past president of Sisters in Crime Chicagoland and a former staff writer at Reader’s Digest, she presents writing workshops throughout the United States. Was this the widow's missing handyman? Could the two deaths be related? With what has become a hallmark for books in the series, past and present collide as Cubiak's search for answers uncovers the sad legacy of loneliness and the disquieting links between wealth and poverty on the peninsula. Patricia Skalka is the author of the award-winning Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery series. Later that week, an explosion in an ice fishing shack on the frozen bay leads to the discovery of another body, burned beyond recognition. The scene bears all the characteristics of an accidental fall, not unheard of for a person of her age, but something is not adding up. Lying at the bottom of a flight of stairs, clutching a valuable bronze sculpture, she points her outstretched hand in the direction of a nearby, nondescript ring. Pat Skalka's grandmother emerges in this family story as a brave, strong woman chasing off a predator who seeks to take Rose, a daughter with polio, away to be healed. His initial disquiet is easily dismissed-until she is found dead the next morning in her home. This book is based on a family story which is amazing in itself. With Door County caught in the grip of a fierce winter storm, Sheriff Dave Cubiak agrees to do a simple favor for a friend of his wife: he stops by to check in on an affluent widow with a questionable new suitor.
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