Dimensions
129 x 198 x 1mm
Moose Creek, Canada: a town halted by the frost and blinded by the snow, where the most popular entertainment is drinking and where the wind is so cold it could kill you in minutes.
Dafydd Woodruff, a talented young surgeon haunted by the memory of a slip on the operating table, arrives in Moose Creek for a locum position, but primarily to deal with his guilt. However, he quickly makes an enemy in the calculating head nurse of the hospital -- Sheila Hailey -- and it is through her that he begins to understand everyone in the community has a dark secret. And what else does their relationship hide?
Fifteen years later, Dafydd, frustrated with his life and with the unsuccessful attempts to produce a child with his wife Isabel, receives a mysterious, handwritten letter. It claims he is already a father -- to twins, Miranda and Mark, conceived during the period Dafydd spent in Moose Creek. The thing is, Dafydd can't recall having a passionate affair -- and he has his suspicions that someone has begun a dangerous game.
As the past grabs hold and Isabel becomes more distant, Dafydd realises that in order to unearth the truth he must travel back to Moose Creek and confront this new 'family'. There, he re-enters the life of the twins' mother, Sheila, and it soon becomes clear she is orchestrating a plan to gain something from him -- a plan that compromises her own children and that will cease only when she gets what she desires. But what is it? And why is Dafydd the target?
Snow blankets the town and renders it faceless, and a host of characters begin to enter the circle -- from the indigenous people of the area to the Moose Creek town locals -- as a complex web is formed around the hapless Dafydd. From there, the plot hurtles towards a devastating, chilling climax as he begins to realise the only chance for resolution is a showdown -- with the ice-maiden herself...
'Ice Trap' is a literary sensation, having been snapped up from the Welsh Women's Press after a huge public response and having been short-listed for the Wales Book of the Year award 2006 and the Crime Writers Association New Blood Dagger Award for Best First Crime Novel. It won the BBC Radio Cymru's Listeners' Prize.
