On the morning of her sixteenth birthday, RenΓ©e Winters was still an ordinary girl. She spent her summers at the beach, had the perfect best friend, and had just started dating the cutest guy at school. No one she'd ever known had died. But all that changes when she finds her parents dead in the Red
Beautiful Lie the Dead
β Scribed by Barbara Fradkin
- Publisher
- Dundurn;Napoleon
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 242 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Inspector Green explores a web of betrayal and deceit. In the dead of night, the phone rings in the missing persons unit of the Ottawa Police. A brutal blizzard is howling, and a wealthy social activist has not heard from his fiancΓ©e in over twenty-four hours. Friends, family and police are mobilized to search the snowbound city. He comes to believe that his partner is fleeing for her life, possibly from his own family. When a frozen body is found in the snow, just blocks from the man's home, Green knows that someone is conspiring to keep the truth hidden.
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