Memories of winter storms, snowbound homes, and inaccessible roads came to mind when I sat down to write Icy Silence, book 3 in the Megan Scott/Michael Elliott Mystery series. With so many images to draw from, it was easy to paint the weather as a formidable adversary in the story.
An isolated private collage school during an ice storm offered the perfect setting for Icy Silence—one that I created based on the actual 1998 Canadian ice storm that affected millions of people and killed dozens....