num_pages: 416
description: 2019 recipient of the Derrick Murdoch award from the Crime Writers of Canada Delaney glides between scenes with ease. She uses a bare-bones style without literary flash to achieve artistry as sturdy and restrained as a Shaker chair. Publishers Weekly  STARRED review Siblings Wendy and Jason Wyatt-Yarmouth and their friends have come to the peaceful mountain town of Trafalgar B.C. to enjoy a two-week vacation of skiing drinking drugs and sex. But tragedy strikes when two of the group crash through the ice into the frozen river. It's Christmas Eve and the snowstorm of the decade has settled over the town. Constables Molly Smith and Dave Evans are busy attending to fender-benders tumbling pedestrians and Christmas tree fires. Then at the stroke of midnight they are summoned to the scene of an a car has gone off the snowy road into the river. Police coroner and medics all agree it was an accident. But when the autopsy reveals a shocking secret Molly and Sergeant John Winters are plunged into a world of sexual predators recreational drugs privilege and high-living. Meanwhile stalker Charlie Bassing is out of jail and looking for revenge a handsome Mountie is giving Molly the eye and her mother Lucky is cheerfully interfering in the investigation. And all Molly wants to do is ski the powder....
language: English
title: Winter of Secrets
publisher: Poisoned Pen Press