Binding: Paperback
Description: Saturday November 14, 5:00 A. M. In the small Adirondack town of Millers Kill an old lumberman sits in the dark with his gun across his knees. Not far away an unemployed logger sleeps off his bender from the night before. The owner of the town's last paper mill tosses in his bed. And a young woman one of three heirs to the 250,000 - acre Great Camp wakes alone in darkness bound and gagged. Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne wants nothing more than a quiet day of hunting in the mountains on his fiftieth birthday. His wife needs to have the town's new luxury resort ready for its gala opening night. The Reverend Clare Fergusson expects to spend the day getting St. Alban's Church ready for the bishop's annual visit. Her long - distance suitor from New York expects some answers about their relationship during his weekend in town. In Millers Kill where everyone knows everyone and all are part of an interconnected web of blood or acquaintance one person's troubles have a way of ensnaring others. What begins as a simple case of a woman lost in the woods leads to a tangle of revenge blackmail assault kidnapping and murder. As the hours tick by Russ and Clare struggle to make sense of their town's plunge into chaos - - - and their own chaotic emotions. Something terrible waits in the ice - rimed mountains cradling Millers Kill. Something that won't be content with just one death - - - or two In To Darkness and To Death Julia Spencer - Fleming continues her moving story of the way a small town as well as a great city can harbor evil and the struggle of two honest people to deal with the ever - present threat of their feelings for one another.
Title: To Darkness And To Death A Clare Fergusson And Russ Van Alstyne Mystery
Author(s): Spencer - Fleming Julia
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250016065
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 12/11/2012
Series: Fergusson/Van Alstyne Mysteries
Category: Crime & Mystery