It’s summertime in Busman’s Harbor, Maine, and the clamming is easy—or it was until a mysterious new neighbor blocks access to the beach, cutting off the Snowden Family Clambake’s supply. Julia Snowden is just one of many townspeople angered by Bartholomew Frick’s decision. But which one of them was angry enough to kill?

Beachcombers, lighthouse buffs, and clammers are outraged after Frick puts up a gate in front of his newly inherited mansion. When Julia urges him to reconsider, she’s the last to see him alive—except the person who stabs him in the neck with a clam rake. As she pores through a long list of suspects, Julia meets disgruntled employees, rival heirs, and a pair of tourists determined to visit every lighthouse in America. They all have secrets, and Julia will have to work fast to expose the guilty party—or see this season’s clam harvest dry up for good.

Praise for Iced Under

“Ross knows her Maine coast and her snowstorms. Both provide an atmospheric backdrop for a cozy that . . . picks up its pace when its focus returns to the living and the newly dead.”
— Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Barbara Ross is the author of seven Maine Clambake Mysteries. The eighth, Sealed Off , will be released in December 2019. Barbara's novellas featuring JuliaSnowden are included along with stories by Leslie Meier and Lee Hollisin the anthologies Eggnog Murder and Yule Log Murder. A new anthology, Haunted House Murder, will be released in August 2019.

Barbara's books have been nominated for multiple Agatha Awards for Best Contemporary Novel. Stowed Away , the sixth Maine Clambake Mystery, won the 2019 Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. Barbara and her husband live in Portland, Maine.