This was #5 of 12 in the series, and one of the best! I have now completed reading them all. (I like to read in order but couldn't get my hands on this one till now). ( )

Helma works in the Bellehaven Public Library. She wears a Love your Library T-shirt on her day off. She has a cat. I stopped reading at that point.

The librarian stereotypes still annoy, but the plot was more exciting with this one. Also suffers from Murder She Wrote syndrome - why do people keep getting killed in the vicinity of this perfectly normal albeit obsessive woman? But many mystery series do. ( )

Fifth in the Jo Dereske series on librarian Helma Zukas. In this one Helma and her friend Ruth take a kiking trip to the mountains near Bellehaven, WA. naturally murder ensues, and Helma and Ruth are caught in an early snow in an emergency cabin with other stranded hikers. ( )

After aiding in the rescue of a gravely injured man, Helma Zukas and her friend Ruth search for the victim's missing companion and are stranded in a snowstorm with a group of strangers, one of whom is a killer ( )