The first fall of snow can be fatal...

A year has passed since DI James Walker cracked his biggest case yet, and he's hoping for peace and quiet this festive season.

But across the fells, a local farmer returns home on Christmas Eve to find footsteps in the fresh snow that lead down to his unused basement - and no footsteps leading away. Days later, his body is found, alongside those of his wife and daughter.

Without a neighbour for miles, there are no witnesses and little evidence. And the crime scene has strange echoes of another terrible murder committed at the farmhouse, twenty years earlier...

James knows that to catch this killer, he needs to solve a case that has long since gone cold...

Perfect for fans of smash-hit TV series Whitehouse Farm, Simon McCleave's The Snowdonia Killings and Catherine Cooper's The Chalet.

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