First published 2012
Clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin faces a cold case that won't stay cold. Three years ago, teenagers Piper Hadley and Tash McBain disappeared on a Sunday morning, capturing national attention but yielding no answers. Now a blizzard blankets the countryside as a married couple dies violently in the very farmhouse where Tash once lived. Police arrest a disturbed young man who hears voices and swears he saw a girl fleeing from a snowman that terrible night. O'Loughlin teams with former detective Vincent Ruiz to convince authorities the cases connect. They believe one or both girls might still draw breath somewhere. But reopening the investigation means confronting someone whose mind calculates evil with chilling precision. As O'Loughlin and Ruiz dig deeper, they race time itself to reach the girls before their captor completes whatever twisted plan has been years in the making.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: cold-case, race-against-time, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Farmhouse, Countryside
Period: 3 Years Ago, Present Day
448 pages · Kindle Edition · Mulholland Books
Content warnings: violence