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Ice Cold
464 pages
A dread-soaked winter thriller where the biting cold is matched only by the chilling secrets buried beneath the snow.
What it feels like
This propulsive medical thriller plunges readers into a claustrophobic, dread-soaked winter nightmare. The atmosphere is immediately chilling, trapping you in a remote, snow-choked landscape where abandoned houses and untouched meals create an eerie sense of profound isolation. As the narrative shifts from creeping paranoia to a frantic, grief-fueled investigation, the pacing accelerates into a relentless race for the truth. The prose balances forensic, clinical precision with the visceral terror of being hunted in the dark. It is a story of survival, twisted histories, and the fierce determination to uncover buried secrets. Readers who devour high-stakes suspense and atmospheric mysteries will find themselves completely consumed by this grim, icy descent into the unknown.
- Mood
- chilling
- dread-soaked
- claustrophobic
- eerie
- Tone
- urgent
- grim
- suspenseful
- clinical
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- survival against the elements · uncovering buried secrets · grief and determination · isolation and vulnerability
- The writing
- Taut and atmospheric, balancing forensic precision with the visceral terror of a frozen, inescapable landscape.
- The arc
- Moves from the creeping dread of isolation to the frantic, grief-fueled determination of uncovering a horrifying truth.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave high-stakes medical thrillers steeped in wintery isolation and relentless suspense.
Content notes
- death of a friend
- gruesome discoveries
- stalking
- burned remains
About the book
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.
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