Eric Wright introduced Mel Pickett in Buried In Stone. In his newest adventure, the retired officer from Toronto becomes involved in police work when a body is discovered in the cabin he owns. The day shift at the Ontario Provincial Police Station had just come on duty when they received a disturbing call - a homicide in a log cabin on Larch River. Sergeant Wilkie fears it's Mel who has been killed and is almost relieved when he sees that the victim is Norbert Thompson, a local "hired man" who had been renting Pickett's cabin. Just as Wilkie starts looking for a motive, Pickett arrives in town and learns of the murder. His immediate thought is, was he the intended victim?