Winter can be harsh in the North Country. When the reckless teenaged Rousseau brothers, J.T. and Dustin, attempt to cross a frozen Lake Champlain in their ancient VW, what they find plunges them into hot water, not cold. Their guilt in a brutal murder is obvious to everyone except English teacher Amelia Prentice Dickensen, freshly returned from her honeymoon with new husband Gil, who is determined to find the clue that will prove them innocent: a single bullet.
Frank Bennett, the tacitum police chief of the remote village of Trout Run, New York, returns in the second installment of S.W. Hubbard's compelling mystery series. The sudden death of Mary Pat Sheehan creates havoc in the small Adirondack mountain town of Trout Run. People are stunned to learn that Mary Pat died from childbirth complications, since no one knew she was pregnant. Police Chief Frank Bennett soon discovers Mary Pat was involved with a black market adoption organization...but where is her baby?
The remote village of Trout Run lies inside New York's vast Adirondack Park, a tiny community cloistered within deep forests and rugged mountains. You can drive for miles without seeing another soul--so when high school senior Janelle Harvey vanishes while walking home along a lonely forest road, only the trees are mute witnesses to her disappearance. Police Chief Frank Bennett is new to Trout Run, and he's determined not to make another mistake in judgment like the one that cost him his previous job.
Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson left the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy. Now she has returned to the placid, isolated shores of the lakeside school as a Latin teacher, recently separated and hoping to make a fresh start with her young daughter. But ominous messages from the past dredge up forgotten memories that will become a living nightmare.
An unlikely group of campers including a woman, her two oddball friends, her teen daughter and her ex's fiancée embark on a trip in the Adirondacks only to be targeted by a pair of teenage killers.
On June 4, the body of a young woman surfaced from 300 feet of water in Lake Placid, New York. Because of the depth and the intense cold of the water, the body, which was determined by medical examiners to have been submerged for 20 years, was remarkably well-preserved. Authorities concluded that her death had been violent.