num_pages: 272
description: Perfect for fans of Jenny Milchman Linda Castillo and Lisa Gardnerthe first book in a suspenseful new crime thriller series featuring the tough but haunted police chief Lizzie Snow a big-city cop with a mission taking on a small town with a dark side. Moving from Boston to remote Bearkill Maine isnt homicide cop Lizzie Snows idea of a step up. But breaking away from tragedy and personal betrayal is at least a step in the right direction. Her dead sisters fate still torments her as does her long-missing nieces disappearance. Lizzie hopes to find the mysteriously vanished child here amid the coming ice and snow. But in the Great North Woods something darker and more dangerous than punishing winter is also bound for Bearkill. The town is a world apart in more than distancefull of people who see everything say little and know more than theyll share with an outsider. The only exceptions are the handsome state cop who once badly broke Lizzies heart and desperately wants another chanceand Lizzies new boss sheriff Cody Chevrier whos counting on her years of homicide experience to help him solve his most troubling case before its too late. A rash of freak accidents and suicides has left a string of dead menall former local cops. Now the same cruel eyes that watched them die are on Lizzieand so is the pressure to find out what sort of monster has his hooks in this town what his ruthless game is and just how brutally hell play to win. Whatever the truth is its twisted roots lie in the desolate backwoods of Allagash County: where the desperate disappear the corrupt find shelter and the innocent lose everything. Its there that a cunning and utterly cold-blooded killer plans the fate of the helpless lives at his mercyone of whom may be the lost child Lizzie will do anything to save. As a blizzard bears down and Bearkills dark secrets claw their way to the surface Lizzie gears up for a showdown that could leave the deep driven snow stained blood red.
language: English
title: Winter at the Door
publisher: Bantam