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A review by ahfeehan
The Deep, Deep Snow by Brian Freeman

4.0

Shelby Lake was abandoned as a baby, and named after the lake where her adoptive father was fishing when a snowy owl gave him a sign to go home, and found her on his doorstep. Snowy owls continue to be signs for Shelby, and one appears on a day when she believes she is to rescue a young boy who is lost in the woods.
She tries to help her father, the sheriff of their small town, solve this mystery just as she is also losing him, to early-onset Alzheimers.
I enjoyed the book, I liked the characters and the description of small-town life. I changed the review from three stars to four because the things that bugged me were actually good story-telling. (For example, *mild spoiler* Why didn't she get together with the hunky veterinarian?)
I had to wait until the end to figure out the title: The Deep, Deep Snow covers up secrets... but those secrets are revealed at spring melt. Shelby writes a song about it near the end of the book.
I actually got tearful a couple of times.