Ice Cold

Zusatztext “The kind of book you’d read in one sitting.” —Chicago Sun-Times   “Amazing . . . another winner.” —The Plain Dealer   “Gerritsen paces Ice Cold with surgical precision.” — Salon Informationen zum Autor Tess Gerritsen Klappentext NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Tess Gerritsen's relentless, inventive novels take readers on pulse-racing thrill rides that are as satisfying as they are heart-stopping. Now, in this edge-of-your-seat suspense novel, a mysteriously isolated town stands abandoned as a silent watcher waits. In Wyoming for a medical conference, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles joins a group of friends on a spur-of-the-moment ski trip. But when their SUV stalls on a snow-choked mountain road, they're stranded with no help in sight. As night falls, the group seeks refuge from the blizzard in the remote village of Kingdom Come, where twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. Something terrible has happened in Kingdom Come: Meals sit untouched on tables, cars are still parked in garages. The town's previous residents seem to have vanished into thin air, but footprints in the snow betray the presence of someone who still lurks in the cold darkness-someone who is watching Maura and her friends. Days later, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives the grim news that Maura's charred body has been found in a mountain ravine. Shocked and grieving, Jane is determined to learn what happened to her friend. The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of Kingdom Come, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow. As horrifying revelations come to light, Jane closes in on an enemy both powerful and merciless-and the chilling truth about Maura's fate. Praise for Ice Cold "The kind of book you'd read in one sitting."-Chicago Sun-Times "Amazing . . . another winner."-The Plain Dealer "Gerritsen paces Ice Cold with surgical precision."-SalonPLAIN OF ANGELS, IDAHO   SHE WAS THE CHOSEN ONE.   For months, he had been studying the girl, ever since she and her family had moved into the compound. Her father was George Sheldon, a mediocre carpenter who worked with the construction crew. Her mother, a bland and forgettable woman, was assigned to the communal bakery. Both had been unemployed and desperate when they’d first wandered into his church in Idaho Falls, seeking solace and salvation.   Jeremiah had looked into their eyes, and he saw what he needed to see: lost souls in search of an anchor, any anchor.   They had been ripe for the harvest.   Now the Sheldons and their daughter, Katie, lived in Cottage C, in the newly built Calvary cluster. Every Sabbath, they sat in their assigned pew in the fourteenth row. In their front yard they’d planted hollyhocks and sunflowers, the same cheery plants that adorned all the other front gardens. In so many ways, they blended in with the other sixty-four families in The Gathering, families who labored together, worshiped together, and, every Sabbath evening, broke bread together.   But in one important way, the Sheldons were unique. They had an extraordinarily beautiful daughter. The daughter whom he could not stop staring at.   From his window, Jeremiah could see her in the school yard. It was noon recess, and students milled about outside, enjoying the warm September day, the boys in their white shirts and black pants, the girls in their long pastel dresses. They all looked healthy and sun-kissed, as children ought to look. Even among those swan-like girls, Katie Sheldon stood out, with her irrepressible curls and her bell-like laughter. How quickly girls change, he thought. In a single year, she had transformed from a child into a willowy young woman. Her bright eyes, gleaming hair, and rosy cheeks were all signs of fertil...

Product details

• Authors: Tess Gerritsen
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9781101887387
• ISBN: 978-1-101-88738-7
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 190 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Rizzoli & Isles; Rizzoli & Isles Novels; Rizzoli & Isles
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage