Iced Under

The ice was clear that year, clear as rain right down to the bottom....A bitter divorce drives Sara Wolesley to abandon her comfortable urban life, and with her two young daughters in tow, she takes up residence in a rundown cottage on a frozen lake in Quebec. The rashness of this action soon becomes apparent when the pipes in the cottage freeze. With no money, no job prospects, and now no water, Sara is close to a breakdown when she discovers the body of a child trapped under the ice.Her name is Oralee Pelletier and she has been missing for five months. As Detective Sergeant Rompré of the MRC des Collines Police launches his investigation, Sara is drawn into the lives of the mother of the child who has a secret, her former friend who has all the answers, and that of a quiet solitary man with a past no one wants to talk about.When there is a second suspicious death and nothing adds up, Sara doesn't know who can be trusted in the seemingly idyllic village of St. Jude. 2009 Shortlist for Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel Nadine was born in Comox, British Columbia, the third daughter of an RCAF mechanic and his Scottish wife. A graduate of Vancouver's prestigious Studio 58 Theatre Program, her career detoured from acting to casting for film and television and finally to writing crime fiction.

Her debut novel, Iced Under was shortlisted for Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel in 2009 (Crime Fiction). The Grey Lady was published by Toronto's McArthur and Company in 2012. Her third psychological mystery, The River Bride was published by the author in July 2014.

Nadine lives in the Quebec wilderness where she enjoys having no hobbies and is a terrible gardener. No psychopaths. No serial killers. It's the one you thought you knew.Contemporary womens fiction, psychological suspense. For readers of Ruth Ware, Barbara Vine and Lucy Foley