After a knee injury forces professional Scottish dancer, Liss MacCrimmon to give up her life of performing strathspreys, reels, jigs and Highland flings she returns to her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine, where she runs a Scottish Emporium. From the Trade Paperback edition.Ī former Scottish dancer turned small-town shop owner must search for a killer among her former company in this cozy mystery by the author of Kilt Dead. Ellie Stone is on a chilling journey to a place of uncertainty, loss, teenage passion, and vulnerability-where Ellie’s questions are unwanted and her life is in danger. Irene has read Ellie’s stories in the paper on an earlier murder case and believes Ellie is her last hope. She tells Ellie that the local police won’t help her, that they believe Darleen has run off with some older boy and will return when she is ready.
New Year’s Eve, 1960: The small upstate town of New Holland, New York, is in the grips of a severe cold snap, when Ellie Stone receives a late-night caller-Irene Metzger, the grieving mother of Darleen Hicks. Moments later the bus rumbles away without her, and she is never seen again. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.ĭecember 21, 1960, the shortest day of the year: Fifteen-year-old Darleen Hicks slips away from her school bus as it idles in the junior-high parking lot, waiting to depart. The fate of both the country and the state she loves is dangling on the precipice of a strong cold death. The lives of those Caitlin loves most are threatened by the villains she’s pursuing her own moral code is challenged.
In her highest-stakes adventure yet, Caitlin Strong faces off against a host of adversaries that just might include the beautiful Comanche girl with whom the son of her ex-outlaw boyfriend Cort Wesley Masters has fallen in love, along with a mythic monster culled from Native American folklore that the tribe believes has risen to protect its land. This is the same reservation where Caitlin’s great-great-grandfather, also a Texas Ranger, once waged a similar battle against the forces of John D. At the center of that puzzle is an Indian reservation where a vengeful tycoon is mining the toxin, disguising his effort as an oil-drilling operation. There is a frantic race to see who can get to it first, even as Caitlin Strong begins to assemble the disparate pieces of a deadly puzzle. The same toxin holds the potential to eradicate cancer. Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong returns in Jon Land's Strong Cold Dead, a thriller with heart-stopping action and a high-stakes terrorist plot The terrorist organization ISIS is after a deadly toxin that could be the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.
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