Farrow's second Émile Cinq - Mars novel opens with a stunning sequence in which the Montreal police detective finds a body submerged in
water beneath a frozen lake, a favorite haunt of
ice fisherman: «The circular
ice hole was partially filled with
water,
and a few inches below the surface floated a human head, the long hair
beaded with
ice, the face plunged down into the frigid lake.»