A snowy night, a dangerous part of a road, a flash of white, and a sickening thud. Nan Lewis is an emotional basket case. Part of it is her concern for the deer - she is sure it was a deer. Maybe it was injured. She has to get out of the car and trudge through the snow to see if she can find it. Not the best idea but Nan isn't thinking clearly. She has just come from a faculty Christmas party where she had been drinking and also where she found out that she wasn't going to be offered tenure. Nan doesn't find any trace of the deer. But she does see that her accident had taken place in the same place where her young daughter had been hit and killed so many years before. She gets her car as far as her driveway when she realizes it has snowed so much she will never get the car up the driveway. So she leaves it in a turnabout and climbs the hill to her house.
The next morning she receives a visit from the police. She is shocked to find out that one of her students, who was also at the party, was killed in a hit-and-run where Nan had had her accident. Seeing her damaged car the police were immediately suspicious. And just like that Nan becomes a pariah. This was a great book - interesting characters and plot that kept me guessing.
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