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When murder stalks a family over Christmas, Detective Kala
Stonechild trusts her intuition to get results. “Sneaks up on you
with its grit and promise.” — National Post It’s a week
before Christmas when wealthy businessman Tom Underwood disappears
into thin air — with more than enough people wanting him dead.
Officer Kala Stonechild, who has left her Northern Ontario
detachment to join a specialized Ottawa crime unit, is tasked with
returning Underwood home in time for the holidays. Stonechild is a
lone wolf who is used to surviving by her wits. Her new boss,
Detective Jacques Rouleau, has his hands full controlling her, his
team, and an investigation that keeps threatening to go off track.
Old betrayals and complicated family relationships brutally collide
when love turns to hate and murder stalks a family. Finalist for
the Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Novel
Still waters run deep. English teacher, mother, wife, and convicted
child predator Jane Thompson has made parole and she has a plan.
She begins her life in the shadows while she bides her time. One
month later, the bludgeoned body of the student she was found
guilty of corrupting four years earlier is found on the shores of
Lake Ontario. Officers Stonechild and Gundersund head up the
investigation and Jane Thompson quickly becomes the prime suspect.
But knowing guilt and proving it are two entirely different things.
Wading through deeply buried secrets to the truth will take
Stonechild and the team on a twisted journey into the heart of
evil. The question is: who will come out the other side?
Two murders, fourteen years apart, both shrouded in secrets. David
McKenna lies dying in a Kingston hospital, his children gathered
from across the country to say a final goodbye. But the family
reunion opens old wounds. David's only daughter, Lauren, never
recovered from the unsolved murder of her high school best friend
fourteen years earlier - or the suspicion that her brother,
Tristan, was behind it. Before David breathes his last, Tristan's
pregnant wife disappears and the Major Crimes Unit is called in to
help find her. With Kala Stonechild struggling to reconnect with
her foster niece and Zach Woodhouse making trouble for Staff
Sergeant Jacques Rouleau, tensions are running high on the team,
but they must put their personal problems aside when a woman's
strangled body is found frozen on the Rideau Trail. With a winter
storm sweeping the shores of Lake Ontario, the team uncovers
unspeakable betrayals that give more than one suspect a reason to
kill ...
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