Ice Lake - Softcover

Farrow, John

3.47

267 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812992644 ISBN 13: 9780812992649

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2001

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A woman discovers a frozen corpse under the ice in her fishing shack—coincidentally, on the same lake where Detective Cinq-Mars is enjoying an afternoon of ice fishing with his partner just a few shacks away.

In this keenly intelligent, strikingly original new novel of suspense John Farrow once again creates a colorful, convincing tableau replete with criminals, cops, corrupt scientists, and dogged activists, all caught up in an intriguing and deadly battle between two big pharmaceutical companies on the trail of an AIDS vaccine. Lured into the fray by an anonymous phone call as deaths begin to mount all over the East Coast, Cinq-Mars must call upon all of his resources to crack the case before he himself becomes its next victim. Gripping, starkly realistic, and tantalizingly complex, Ice Lake astonishes with its deft, assured plotting, fully realized characters, and bone-chilling suspense. With this second thriller John Farrow joins the likes of Michael Connelly and Kathy Reichs as one of the most compelling voices in sophisticated crime fiction.
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Review:

"A genuine page-turner" (Guardian)

"A really fine police procedural" (Independent on Sunday)

"Nicely written, cleverly plotted, and completely satisfying" (Glasgow Evening Times)

From the Publisher:

A chilling thriller from the author of City of Ice. This is the second in the series of Emile Cinq-Mars novels: Cinq-Mars promises to be as popular as Kay Scarpetta or Tempe Brennan

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