December Heat
Publisher: Picador
Published: October 17, 2003
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780330490931
Subjects: Crime & mystery; Mystery/Suspense
First sentence: It wasn't the nasty words that woke the boy up late at night-he was used to sleeping with noise-but the banging on the cardboard box, a discarded refrigerator container someone had tossed onto the sidewalk a couple of days before and that had now become his bed and home.