Clients never tell the whole story. Harry Stoner had taken a snowy drive to Cincinnati psychiatrist Phil Pearson's mansion to hear the tale of daughter Kirsten—emotionally disturbed and missing.
But the doctor left out the parts about his first wife's suicide and his second wife's bedroom eyes that were already chasing the winter cold from Stoner's blood. That's why Stoner suspected the
search for Kirsten could take a kinky turn. He'd seen teens driven by desperation before—the dark things hidden deep in troubled minds become too much for flesh and blood to bear. And Kirsten's
secrets were tied to an act so chilling that its reemergence could tear lives apart, unleashing passions so violent that even the hard heart of a seasoned PI could break or be stopped forever.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Tough and compassionate…may be the best book yet done by one of the most consistently interesting novelists in the mystery and suspense field.” —Wall Street Journal
“Series
detective Harry Stoner tackles an apparently easy missing persons case…This
efficient narrative with a hard-boiled edge has a sometimes predictable but
always interesting and increasingly baroque plot. A likely choice for most
collections.” —Library Journal
“Crisscrossing
Ohio with unusual somberness, Harry uncovers a truly hair-raising trail of
nasty sex, child abuse, blackmail, and multiple murder…You’ll see the solution
coming fifty pages before Harry does, but that won’t stop the shivers when it
finally arrives. More, much more, than a restaging of The Chill and The Far Side of
the Dollar: what Valin lacks in originality this time he makes up in
genuinely tragic power.” —Kirkus Reviews
Jonathan Valin is a mystery author best known for the Harry Stoner detective series. He won the Shamus Award for best mystery novel of 1989. After writing eleven Harry Stoner novels over a
fourteen-year period, he took a break from mystery writing to help found Fi, a magazine of music criticism. He now works as an editor and reviewer for magazines.
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