It\'s February along the shores of Northern Lake Michigan.
Elkins works to und.
Sheriff Ray Elkins, responding to a late-night home invasion call, discovers the brutal murder of a local artist at her home deep in the woods.
Shelf ice, stacked ten or fifteen feet in places, has been building on Lake Michigan for weeks.
A heavy blanket of snow has been building up in the woods since early November and the inland lakes have had a solid covering of ice since December.
It\'s February along the shores of Northern Lake Michigan