A winter in Ravensdale - Kate Fielding

The 2nd in a series of novels about a young woman doctor in the wild Yorkshire setting of the Dales. It is Laura Grant's 2nd winter working as a GP in the remote Yorkshire practice at Hawkshead. Snowbound and isolated, the Dales community is gripped by the curious circumstances surrounding the discovery of a body in the frozen tarn. Laura's role is to comfort and support the grieving widow; her senior partner, Dr Scott issues the death certificate. But further details emerge and lead Laura to question the competence of her colleague. Can the practice hold together under the increasing strain of a police investigation.