"As brooding and lethal as a Wisconsin winter storm, this taut thriller puts small-town relations into frightening relief. Magnuson keeps the psychological tension high, right up to the satisfying denouement."

Publishers Weekly, July 26, 2005

 
"James Magnuson's eighth novel kicks off with a jolt: A father discovers his college-student daughter brutally murdered in a remote Wisconsin cabin where the pair was to spend the Christmas holidays cross-country skiing and healing recent wounds. David Neisen had talked with Maya only minutes before on the phone and, soon after the local sheriff arrives, he's cast in the shadow of prime suspect." More...

San Antonio Express News, Sept. 8, 2005

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