For the February Colour in the Title challenge. This is for the novel "Grey Souls" by Phillipe Claudel. I know nothing about the book other than it is apparently a detective story; one review comments "The location is a small town in Northern France, in the dead of the freezing winter."

For others chasing colour this month: https://forum.pbase.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=49114&sid=9c289e7543605e1fdede27f904c00c0f