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Ojibwa Vinnie LeBlanc, Alex McKnight's friend and neighbor, has inveigled the former Detroit policeman, professional baseball player, into being goalie for his "slow puck" hockey team (at 40-something, Alex should know better). During the game, Alex notices that one of the opposition, Lonnie Bruckman, seems to be acting strangely, and afterward, in the bar, Lonnie and his teammates, and their camp followers, try and start trouble. Later, Dorothy Parrish, the woman who was with Lonnie, and herself an Ojibwa who is trying to escape her heritage, comes to Alex for help. He puts her in one of his empty cabins, but the next morning, when he goes to get her, he finds the door open and Dorothy gone. The ice isn't the only thing black in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in the winter. Alex's mood is also. But he feels responsible for finding the woman, and despite his problems with the local police, and his reluctance to be in the PI business, he joins forces with Leon Prudell, a strangely sympathetic character, to find the solution. Hamilton has fully developed characters and story, and the venue, Michigan's UP comes alive during the depths of winter. When someone gets beat up, he ends up in the hospital for several days. When Leon and Alex try and break into a house, it's classic slapstick. This book is a worthy successor to Edgar winning A Cold Day in Paradise
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, July 2002
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