This book takes place in upstate New York in the snow belt but has all the dangers of a family living in the western plains.
When the wife returns to her family’s remote homestead in far upstate New York in a snowstorm to find four of her five children and her husband shot dead and left where they fell. She finds her 5th child hiding In a closet and the mystery goes from there.
I’m not always one for mysteries since they tend to go down the same redundant path, but my love of westerns drew me to this one and I wasn’t disappointed.