Dead Wind
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Senior Investigator Shana Merchant must dredge up dark secrets and old grudges if she's to solve the murder of a prominent local citizen in the Thousand Islands community she now calls home.
"Wegert nicely balances plot and characterization. Fans of Denise Mina’s Alex Morrow will be pleased" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review
The body is discovered on Wolfe Island, under the shadow of an enormous wind turbine. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant, arriving on the scene with fellow investigator Tim Wellington, can't shake the feeling that she knows the victim - and the subsequent identification sends shockwaves through their community in the Thousand Islands of Upstate New York.
Politics, power, passion . . . there are dark undercurrents in Shana's new home, and finding the killer means dredging up her new friends and neighbors' old grudges and long-kept secrets.
That is, if the killer is from the community at all. For Shana's keeping a terrible secret of her own: eighteen months ago she escaped from serial killer Blake Bram's clutches. But has he followed her, to kill again?
The Shana Merchant novels are a brilliant blend of chilling psychological thriller and gripping police procedural, set in an atmospheric island community with a small-town vibe.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Wegert's standout third crime thriller starring Shana Merchant (after 2020's The Dead Season), the former NYPD detective continues to pursue Blake Bram, who abducted her after killing three women he'd met through a dating website. After she escaped, the traumatized Merchant joined the New York State Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Alexandria Bay, near the Canadian border, where she got more information on her quarry from another survivor of Bram, nine-year-old Trey Hayes. The case grows cold, though, by the time Hope Oberon is found strangled just across the border at the base of a wind turbine. Oberon was president of the development council of a neighboring city, Watertown, until she and three others were charged in a corruption scheme involving a wind farm. Merchant believes Bram is responsible, but she has other suspects as well, including opponents of the wind farm, foes of Oberon's father (Watertown's longtime mayor), and citizens angered by her graft. Wegert nicely balances plot and characterization. Fans of Denise Mina's Alex Morrow will be pleased.
