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Another riveting novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Learning to Swim*Anthony Award nominee for Best NovelFreelance writer Troy Chance is snapping photos of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival ice palace when the ice-cutting machine falls silent. Encased in the frozen lake is the shadowy outline of a body—a man she knows.      A lurid news story goes viral, throwing suspicion on one of Troy's housemates. Troy is assigned to write an in-depth feature on the dead man, who turns out to be the son of a wealthy Connecticut family playing at a blue-collar life in this Adirondack village. As Troy digs deeper into his life and mysterious death—working with his bereaved sister, reclusive girlfriend, and helpful neighbor—a string of incidents makes it clear someone doesn't want the investigation to continue.



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Sara J. Henry

Sara J. Henry's novel LEARNING TO SWIM, a USA Today bestseller, won the Anthony and Agatha awards for best first novel and the Mary Higgins Clark Award. "An auspicious debut" says Daniel Woodrell (WINTER'S BONE) and "emotional, intense, and engrossing" - Lisa Unger. A COLD AND LONELY PLACE, her second novel, won the Silver Falchion award and was nominated for the Anthony Award for best novel.

Sara has written for sports and fitness magazines, was an editor at Rodale Books and Women's Sports & Fitness magazine, wrote health and fitness books, and was a newspaper and magazine editor. A native of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, she now lives in southern Vermont.



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