Penguin, Toronto, 1991, 1^st pr.  ISBN 0-14-014605-9.  MMPB, 223 pages.  Unread remaindered copy; some edge and cover wear; pages lightly tanning.  ‘Willows is in the depths of a personal crisis when he is called to a bizarre scene of crime.  In an iced-over Chinese ornamental garden the body of a man has been found, grotesquely frozen in a lotus position.  Meanwhile, two young hoodlums, tiring of petty theft, go for the big time and a bored housewife dreams of the handsome thug who hijacked her car.  The events seem unrelated until Willows and Parker delve into their most dangerous homicide investigation yet and uncover some shockingly serious crimes.’ (from rear wrap)