title: The End of Snow: Murder in Squaw Valley: A Laura Bailey Snow Science Mystery
author:  Prudy Grimes 
description: Prudy Grimes was lucky enough to grow up skiing in Michigan, Colorado, and Canada. She received an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Pittsburgh. She then taught writing at The University of Pittsburgh for long enough to know she would rather work on her own writing than read student stories and essays. Her writing has appeared in North American Review, Third Coast, Other Voices, Rattle and other literary journals. She currently writes for Eco Truckee Tahoe. She feels grateful every day to live in the beautiful Lake Tahoe area with her wonderful husband Rich and their dog Hector.
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  When professional organizer Maggie McDonald finds a body in a snowdrift
  outside her friend’s ski cabin, she must plow through the clues to find a
  cold-blooded killer . . .
  
  
  Lake Tahoe in February is beautiful, but Maggie can’t see a thing as she
  drives through a blinding blizzard with her friend Tess Olmos and their dogs,
  golden retriever Belle and German shepherd Mozart. Maggie has offered her
  professional decluttering skills to help Tess tidy up her late husband’s cabin
  in preparation to sell. She also plans to get in some skiing when her husband
  Max and their boys join them later in the week.
  
  
  What she doesn’t plan on is finding a boot in a snowdrift attached to a
  corpse. The frozen stiff turns out to be Tess’s neighbor, Dev Bailey, who
  disappeared two months ago. His widow Leslie expresses grief, but Maggie can’t
  help but wonder if it’s a snow job. As more suspects start to pile up, things
  go downhill fast, an