Like '' Amnesia Nights '' ( 2004 ) , Quinton Skinner 's chilling debut novel , 14 DEGREES BELOW ZERO -LRB- Villard , paper , $ 13.95 -RRB- is set in Minnesota , '' a very cold place where people knew how to behave themselves '' and focuses on a native of that region who , having let the cold get to him , has lost touch with certain behavioral customs .