Freelance writer Troy Chance is snapping photos of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival ice palace when the ice-cutting machine falls silent. Encased in the ice is the shadowy outline of a body—a man she knows. One of her roommates falls under suspicion, and the media descends. Troy's assigned to write an in-depth feature on the dead man, who, it turns out, was the privileged son of a wealthy Connecticut family who had been playing at a blue collar life in this Adirondack village.
And the deeper Troy digs into his life and mysterious death, the murkier things become. After the victim's sister comes to town and a string of disturbing incidents unfold, it's clear someone doesn't want the investigation to continue. Troy doesn't know who to trust, and what she ultimately finds out threatens to shatter the serenity of these mountain towns. She must decide which family secrets should be exposed, what truths should remain hidden, and how far her own loyalty can reach.
A Cold and Lonely Place, the sequel to Learning to Swim, follows Troy on a powerful emotional journey as she discovers the damage left by long-hidden secrets and catches a glimpse of what might have been.
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“I loved Sara J. Henry’s first novel, Learning to Swim,
and A Cold and Lonely Place is even better. This is a character-driven thriller
set in one of the coldest and loneliest places in the United States: the
Adirondack Mountains in mid-winter. When the body of a hard-drinking young
playboy is discovered frozen into the ice in Saranac Lake just before the
annual winter carnival, Troy Chance, the tough-minded and good-hearted young
journalist from Learning to Swim, has another horrific mystery to solve. Sara J. Henry brilliantly draws us into a
terrifying but ultimately affirmative novel in which, once again, love, friendship,
and the shining truth about who we really are redeems an otherwise hopeless
universe.”
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Howard Frank Mosher, award-winning author of The Great Northern Express and Walking to Gatlinburg