Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, perhaps a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt--and, as it turned out, homicidal--school board, and now the town's back in view with more alarming news: a woman's been found dead, frozen in a block of ice. "Any chance this is more than a onetime deal?" Virgil's girlfriend asks him. "No idea." "Then take your shotgun, too." As things develop, this is good advice. There's a possibility the woman's death might be connected to a high school class of twenty-five years ago that has a reunion coming up, and so, wrapping his coat a little tighter, Virgil gets the opportunity to dig into twenty-five years' worth of traumas, feuds, and bad blood, and, in the process, comes very close to spilling some blood of his own.
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