Love and the Snowman — Elizabeth Reynish

When Francis takes a holiday in Northcumberland with her Aunt Rosie, a writer of travel articles in a woman's magazine, she doesn't forsee for a minute the adventures which lie ahead-missing fathers, missing archives, a Roman Wall, strange civil servants, landslides and gunman, not to mention a brush with a snowman. Nor does she guess that love will be tied up with these escapes, from the moment she meets a large sheepdog and nearly runs over a cyclist.