Police chief Reid Bennett-the most savvy cop currently in the genre-and his dog track cold-hearted kidnappers in a Canadian crime thriller (Library Journal).

Reid Bennett, the newest addition to the Murphy's Harbour, Ontario, police department, has embarked on his second case. During the Ice Festival, there is a sudden blackout and the Queen of the Ice Festival disappears; in fact she has been kidnapped! Members of a feminist antiaEURO'pageant group are suspected, but Reid suspects something fishy. He must expose the organizer of the kidnapping-and try not to get himself killed.