Recovering from knee surgery that will cause her to miss the upcoming dogsled racing season, champion musher Jessie Arnold feels empty and bored -- so she grabs an opportunity to fill her days manning the Iditarod booth at the Alaska State Fair.
But murder becomes an attraction here as well -- an especially brutal one -- when the corpse of a small-time hoodlum slain by a double-blade axe blow to the skull turns up on the fairgrounds.
Jessie shouldn't get involved, having already seen too mu.