Winter House

With Winter House, Carol O'Connell proves once again the enduring power ofMallory' Karin Slaughter When a serial lady-killer is found with shears sticking out of his chestand an ice pick in his hand, Kathy Mallory and her NYPD Special Crimespartner Detective Sgt. Riker are called in to investigate. One of theoccupants of Winter House, the scene of the crime, is 70-year-old NeddaWinter, who immediately confesses to the killing, claiming it wasself-defence. Murder solved, case closed. It's even poetic justice. ButWinter House is the site of a massacre that took place 50 years previouslyand doesn't give up its dead so easily. Mallory and Riker will have toreopen the original investigation in order to try and stop the murdererfrom finishing what they started.