Winter's End (Alex Rourke, 1) - Hardcover

Rickards, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312310978 ISBN 13: 9780312310974

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2003

Synopsis

Discovering a knife-wielding young man standing over a woman's murdered body, sheriff Dale Townsend wonders at the enigmatic suspect's refusal to answer questions and a lack of forensic evidence linking him to the crime, a case for which he calls in childhood friend and ex-FBI interrogator Alex Rourke. A first novel.

About this title

Review:

A powerful and assured debut. It kept me turning the pages and guessing all the way. -- Andrew Klavan, author of True Crime and Don't Say A Word

Grips you from its chilling opening scene to its stunning conclusion. A fine debut. Rickards is definitely one to watch. -- Peter Robinson, author of In A Dry Season and Aftermath

From the Author:

You catch a guy at the scene of a brutal murder with the weapons in his hands – pretty open and shut. But what if you can’t actually prove he did it? What if he won’t even tell you his name? If you don’t know who he is, how can you ever know why he did what he did?

Dealing with all these questions is the job of Alex Rourke, returning to his home town for the first time in seventeen years at the request of the police. As he struggles to unravel the stranger’s reasons for killing, and his reasons for picking the tiny town of Winter’s End, Alex is forced to face the ghosts of his own past and those of his sleepy town before they can overwhelm the present.

In writing Winter’s End, I wanted to create a group of complex yet very human characters in a setting and story with a very definite gothic slant and a genuinely creepy atmosphere, somewhere the lines between perception and reality could be blurred, just a little.

Welcome to Winter’s End. I hope you enjoy your stay.

- John R.

About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0312310978
• ISBN 13: 9780312310974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304