Rochelle comes back to River Rising on the St. Lawrence--sort of a small Bermuda Triangle of unexplained past history--wondering about her mother who had lived and died there and why she's greeted as a ""murderer's daughter."" But there are clear and present dangers--the girl killed in the shawl intended for Rochelle, the disappearance of a painting, etc. Sacrepink suspense without quite the story interest of her first, The High Valley, but a little better than some you can barely remember in between all those others.