When Wallace, a local man, is found dead during the annual Ice Fishing Jamboree, librarian Rain Wilmot finds an enigmatic note to her from Wallace in the books he had returned and seeks to understand the message, while trying to catch a slippery killer.

Rain Wilmot has made her family's Lofty Pines library her year-round home. When local man, Wallace Benson, is found dead during the annual Ice Fishing Jamboree, Rain recalls that she recently saw the victim in her library, borrowing a few cookbooks to prepare for the fishing tournament's communal "chili dump." She later finds these same books returned to the library's drop box, with an enigmatic note from Benson to Rain. When her friend Nick becomes the prime suspect, Rain keeps fishing for other suspects. -- adapted from jacket