The Killing Place - Hardcover

Gerritsen, Tess

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593063228 ISBN 13: 9780593063224

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2010

Synopsis

Published in the US as ICE COLD

Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. Meals remain untouched on dining room tables. Cars are still parked in garages. The human occupants have vanished, seemingly into thin air. This is the unsettling place where Maura Isles finds herself trapped during a snowstorm. She has joined a group of friends on a drive to an isolated ski lodge, but when a wrong turn leaves her car stranded in deep snow, she stumbles down a private road into the valley of Kingdom Come, where she takes shelter - and disappears. Days later, Jane Rizzoli flies to Wyoming to search for her missing friend. A crashed vehicle has been found with four badly burned bodies still inside. The authorities assume that one of the women is Maura. But is it? Jane Rizzoli's search for the truth leads her to Kingdom Come, where a terrifying and gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow.

About this title

About the Author

Bestselling author Tess Gerritsen is also a physician, and she brings to her novels her first-hand knowledge of emergency and autopsy rooms. But her interests span far more than medical topics. As an anthropology student at Stanford University, she catalogued centuries-old human remains, and she continues to travel the world driven by her fascination with ancient cultures and bizarre natural phenomena. Now a full-time novelist, she lives with her husband in Maine.

From the Inside Flap

Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming.

Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. Meals remain untouched on dining-room tables. Cars are still parked in garages. The human occupants have vanished, seemingly into thin air.

This is the unsettling place where Maura Isles finds herself trapped during a snowstorm. In Wyoming to attend a conference, she has joined a group of friends on a drive to an isolated ski lodge. When a wrong turn leaves her car stranded in deep snow, she stumbles down a private road into the valley of Kingdom Come, where she takes shelter - and disappears.

Days later, Jane Rizzoli flies to Wyoming to search for her missing friend. A crashed vehicle has been found with four badly burned bodies inside. The authorities assume that one of the women is Maura.

But is it? And can her disappearance be linked to earlier homicides in the area?

Jane Rizzoli's search for the truth leads her to Kingdom Come, where a terrifying and gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow ...

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593063228
• ISBN 13: 9780593063224
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336