The Trouble With Thin Ice — Camilla T. Crespi

Spending the Christmas holidays at a cozy Connecticut inn where friends are getting married; Italian-born Simona Griffo is tense enough about an entire week of togetherness with her sometime-lover, never mind the fact that he's brought his fourteen-year-old son Willy along. But Simona's problems are nothing compared to those of the bride-to-be. Kesho, a black woman with a white fiance and mysterious roots in the puritanically proper town, is arrested for a very cold-blooded murder. Simona, who likes to meddle in such matters, is instantly concerned ... and intrigued. With Willy as an unlikely ally, Simona asks some questions, puts together some pieces, and unwittingly pushes both herself and the boy onto very thin ice indeed--the kind where one false move could be your last.