In Charlotte MacLeod’s A Dismal Thing to Do, Janet Rhys is thrust into a fight for survival after witnessing a truck crash in the Canadian wilderness. Targeted by the driver’s dangerous accomplices who torch her shelter, Janet is forced to flee into the frozen landscape. Presumed dead by her pursuers, she must evade capture while meticulously unraveling the mystery behind the truck's theft and the surrounding trail of chaos.
Charlotte MacLeod, born in New Brunswick, Canada, and a naturalized U.S. citizen, was the multi-award-winning author of over thirty acclaimed novels. Canada provides a backdrop for the amusing Grub-and-Stakers cozies written under the pseudonym Alisa Craig and the almost-police procedurals starring Madoc Rhys, RCMP.