Skating on Thin Ice — Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

COLD AS ICE

Olympic pairs figure skating hopeful Christine Allen has traveled to Cabot Cove to train at the town's newly refurbished ice arena under the tutelage of former gold medalist Brian Devlin. Partnered with up-and-coming Russian skater Alexei Olshansky, she finds herself caught between a hot-tempered perfectionist and a pretentious chauvinist.

When a series of mysterious "accidents" occurs, it seems that someone wants the trio to take a fall. And when one of them turns up dead at the arena, Jessica Fletcher suspects something even more diabolical. Donning her old figure skates, she takes to the ice for her own investigation. But the closer Jessica gets to the truth, the closer she comes to being left out in the cold by a killer...