Cold Blooded Murders

A chill is in the air this January with our Cold Blooded Murder display on the Lower Level of the library! Stop by today to pick up one of these "chilling" novels:

Killing Winter by Wayne Arthurson:

Leo Desroches, a half-Cree, half–French-Canadian reporter in Edmonton, returns in this sequel to Arthurson’s Fall from Grace. Undercover as a homeless man, Leo’s got his hands full. As he tries to reconnect with his estranged son and fight his urge to gamble, he is consumed by a story that turns into a personal crusade: a search for a missing Native street kid. When the boy is found brutally murdered, Leo explores the depths of Native street culture in a local gang. Secrets emerge that threaten not only the gang members, but Leo’s life…and his sanity.

Closed for Winter by Jorn Lier Horst:

The summer cottages are closed and peace is settling over the coast of Vestfold, Norway, but the autumn fog conceals evil deeds. Ove Bakkerud's cottage is ransacked by burglars and next door he discovers the body of a man who has been beaten to death. Police Inspector William Wisting has witnessed grotesque murders before, but the desperation he sees in this murder is something new and his unease does not diminish when they discover several more corpses on the deserted archipelago. 

Ice Cap by Chris Knopf:

Crazy weather, crazy artists, organized crime, and digital wizardry all play a role in a murder mystery that could only happen in the Hamptons. The outlandish lawyer to the rich and criminal Jackie Swaitkowski's newest ne’re-do-well client is headed for a first-degree murder rap. The case pulls Jackie reluctantly back into her late husband’s extended, and famously outrageous, family. Complicating matters is a handsome journalist whose interest in Jackie exceeds the professional.

Rustication by Charles Palliser:

It is winter 1863, and Richard Shenstone, aged seventeen, has been sent down—“rusticated”—from Cambridge under a cloud of suspicion. Addicted to opium and tormented by sexual desire, he finds refuge in a dilapidated old mansion on the southern English coast with his newly impoverished mother and his sister, Effie. Graphic and threatening letters begin to circulate among his neighbors, and Richard finds himself the leading suspect in a series of crimes and misdemeanors ranging from vivisection to murder.