A lyrical, engaging, coming-of-age murder mystery set in the Great Freeze of 1963. Eleanor O'Dowd, a middle-aged piano teacher, is found stabbed and bludgeoned to death. As the Great Freeze takes hold, local vicar's daughter Daphne Morgan finds herself forced to navigate the confusing currents of the adult world, where she must face up to her own crimes and what she knows about the murder.