ICE COLD
Tess Gerritsen
Synopsis
In Wyoming for a medical conference, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles joins a group of friends on a spur-of-the-moment ski trip. But when their SUV stalls on a snow-choked mountain road, they’re stranded with no help in sight.
As night falls, the group seeks refuge from the blizzard in the remote village of Kingdom Come, where twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. Something terrible has happened in Kingdom Come: Meals sit untouched on tables, cars are still parked in garages. The town’s previous residents seem to have vanished into thin air, but footprints in the snow betray the presence of someone who still lurks in the cold darkness–someone who is watching Maura and her friends.
Days later, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives the grim news that Maura’s charred body has been found in a mountain ravine. Shocked and grieving, Jane is determined to learn what happened to her friend. The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of Kingdom Come, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow. As horrifying revelations come to light, Jane closes in on an enemy both powerful and merciless–and the chilling truth about Maura’s fate.
Richard says
For a short while, maybe one season, there was a TV series based on Tess Gerritsen’s characters, Rizzoli and Isles. It was a fun series but short-lived.
The book ranks much more successfully than the TV series, on the New York Times Bestseller list and deservedly so.
It’s a very suspenseful tale where Isles goes to a medical conference, gets sidetracked and disappears off the grid. Her best friend, Jane Rizzoli, a Boston police detective cannot accept that her methodically-minded friend would just disappear without saying anything and this becomes the basis of the story.
Gerritsen’s plot is a take on some of the cult following stories that have been in the news: Manson Family, Waco, Heaven’s Gate, the Branch Davidians, and Jimmy Jones’ Peoples Temple. Gerritsen writes her story weaving original storylines with aspects of the various cult groups.
The story is superbly written with page after page of suspenseful scenes. Gerristen weaves emotion-tugging scenes with her suspenseful ones engaging the reader with mesmerizing and magnetic attention-grabbing descriptions. The reader feels Gerritsen’s descriptive atmospheres, becomes engaged with the developing tension and suspense and is left breathless more often than would seem plausible for a book.
It’s a good story, well-written, current and believable. Recommended.
