Journalist Kirsten Browne tells her friend, glacier guide Philippa Barnes, that she is investigating something terrible. Before she can say more she is bludgeoned to death beside a West Coast lake. Philippa, determined to find out why, discovers that the people of the lake are hiding many secrets. She finds links to a decades-old mystery, but not in time to prevent another tragedy.
Glacier guide sleuth Philippa Barnes investigates a murder in New Zealand's Westland National Park. Vivien Revell didn’t intend to die. She should have got away but years later Philippa discovers her mangled body in a crevasse on the Franz Josef Glacier. A brutal murder follows, more people are threatened, and it becomes clear that someone is determined to keep Vivien's story hidden.