The Northern Arts Folk School is running its annual coffin-making class titled Bury Yourself In Your Work. But when one of the students is found dead in his unfinished coffin, Chief Deputy Renard is tasked with investigating the crime. The victim, while relatively new to Grand Marais, is established enough to have made some enemies. As Renard digs into Grant Silverton's past, he learns that the victim had a history of moving around. Or was it running? Renard is in a race against time to assemble the pieces of the victim's past and find a killer before the case goes cold. And in January in northern Minnesota, that can happen fast.