In Winter's Grip

✍ Scribed by Chapman, Brenda

• Book ID: 107685318
• Publisher: Dundurn
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 158 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

After her mothers suicide, Maja Cleary turned her back on her family and Duved Cove, Minnesotauntil a desperate phone call reveals that her father has been murdered and her brother Jonas is the prime suspect. She flies home, knowing that she will have to confront shared memories of an abusive father. Even as she works to prove her brothers innocence, she cannot ignore the evidence that he had every reason to kill their father. The frigid, stormy Minnesota landscape sets the mood as she battles against time, the local police and the relentless snow.

Review

"Like all good books, In Winter's Grip has a message: yes, you can go home again, but once you do, you'll remember why you left. This is a novel not only to be read, but savoured."

"Like all good books, emIn Winter's Grip/em has a message: yes, you can go home again, but once you do, you'll remember why you left. This is a novel not only to be read, but savoured."

(Mystery Scene Magazine)

From the Inside Flap

After her mother's suicide, Maja Cleary turned her back on her family and Duved Cove, Minnesota--until a desperate phone call reveals that her father has been murdered and her brother Jonas is the prime suspect. The frigid, stormy Minnesota landscape sets the mood as she battles against time, the local police and the relentless snow.