Dimensions
152 x 228 x 26mm
Like No Country for Old Men and Snow Falling on Cedars, an atmospheric psychological thriller in which a young cop involved in a hit-and-run death becomes the focal point for a community's grief and determination to place blame.
Rookie police officer Ronny Forbert hadn't expected much to happen that evening. It had snowed earlier in the day, before becoming a drizzling rain, and around the time it stopped, the temperatures dropped sharply, turning the surface of the town's roads into black ice, an especially dangerous and slipperly covering. He didn't think much would happen, other than maybe pulling over some cars for speeding, and when he clocked the next driver doing more than 60 miles per hour in a 40 miles per hour zone, he was sure he recognized the jeep carrying four passengers. He turned on his car's siren and lights and headed after them. Turns out he knows the driver and two others in the car, but the fourth is a young boy he hasn't met. It's clear they've been drinking and more.
What begins as a clear-cut arrest for drunk driving spirals out of control into a heated argument and ends in a bizarre accidental death. As the news spreads around the town, Chief of Police Gordy Hawkins is certain that Ronny Forbert followed the rules, at least most of them, and he's willing to stand by his young recruit. But as past relationships reveal themselves, and other events unfold in this haunting, suspenseful, and dazzlingly written novel, various people in this small but tightly woven community decide that a crime must have been committed, and someone - Officer Forbert - must pay a price.
