Death Takes a Flyer is a mystery set in 1950 in Camp Five, a logging camp attached to the mill town of Kinzua, Oregon. Marge O'Connor's first job after college is teaching the upper four grades of the two-room school. When a young wife and mother goes missing, then her mother-in-law is found dead on a Flexible Flyer sled, Marge finds herself in the maelstrom of murderous events. A snowstorm cuts the little community off from the outside world, narrowing the possible suspects to Marge's friends and neighbors. The murderer knows her every move, putting her in grave danger.