Cold as Hell: A Haven's Rock Novel
By (Author) Kelley Armstrong
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Thorndike Press
Thorndike Press
1st April 2025
Large Print Edition
United States
General
Fiction
Narrative theme: Sense of place
Crime and mystery: women sleuths
Hardback
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong returns to Havens Rock in Cold as Hell as Casey Duncan hunts down a dangerous killer during a deadly blizzard.
Havens Rock is a sanctuary town hidden deep in the Yukon for those who need to disappear from the regular world. Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are starting a family now that theyve settled into their life here. As Casey nears the end of her pregnancy, she lets nothing, including her worried husband, stop her from investigating what happens in the forbidden forest outside the town of Havens Rock.
When one of the town's residents is drugged and wanders too close to the edge of town, shes dragged into the woods kicking and screaming. Shes saved in the nick of time, but the women of the town are alarmed. Casey and Eric investigate the assault just as a snowstorm hits Havens Rock, covering the forest. Its there they find a frozen body, naked in the snow. With mixed accounts of the woman's last movements, the two begin to question who they can trustand who they can'tin their seemingly safe haven.
Kelley Armstrong believes experience is the best teacher, though shes been told this shouldnt apply to writing her murder scenes. To craft her books, she has studied aikido, archery and fencing.