While accidently slipping down an ice-covered side street in Lake Tahoe in February, Maggie discovers a dead body literally Snowed Under the recent blizzard’s wrath. It’s the neighbor’s long-missing husband. With her best friend’s help, Maggie investigates all the neighbors for means, motive, and opportunity in a snowy cocoon of suspects.

Maggie is a professional organizer who is helping her best friend Tess declutter her family’s vacation home. With Tess’ husband deceased, Tess is thinking of selling the second home for funds to make a career change for herself and pay for college for her son, Teddy. But when a neighbor’s corpse is found in their snowy cul-de-sac, the clean-up must take a backseat to a murder investigation.

The snowy and remote setting reminds me of the best golden-age mysteries where a group of people are stranded in one place and one of them is a murderer, gwah ha ha ha! You can almost feel the cold winds coming through your kindle. At the same time I am enjoying the fictional cold weather, I am also patting myself on the back for living in an area where real snow is rarely present.

I enjoyed meeting the main characters, Maggie and Tess, but especially their dogs, Belle and Mozart. They felt very genuine with realistic motives for their actions.

The mystery was a challenge to unravel. After living within a housing association tract, I was so hoping that Tess’ association president, Elisabeth, was the murderer. But there are a lot of suspects with even better motivations for murder than Elisabeth.

Overall, Snowed Under is a perfect book to cool you down on a hot summer’s day. 4 stars!

Thanks to Lyrical Press, Kensington Books, Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours, and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.