Sharon Priest is on the moors in a flimsy red dress and high heels, but as a snowstorm sweeps over the moor she doesn't feel the cold. Neither does D. I. Joanna Piercy who is at the Legal Annual Ball fending off Randall Pelham who wants her to find his missing daughter. The thaw sets in and Sharon's frozen injured body reveals that Joanna has a murder on her hands -- and not just one either....