The Last Winter of Dani Lancing
A Novel
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For fans of Tana French and The Silent Wife, THE LAST WINTER OF DANI LANCING is a chilling debut thriller hailed by Sophie Hannah as “brilliant” about one murder’s devastating ripple effects.
Twenty years ago, college student Dani Lancing was kidnapped and brutally murdered. The killer was never found. Dani’s family never found peace.
Thrust into an intense devastation that nearly destroys their marriage, Patty and Jim Lancing struggle to deal with their harrowing loss. Patty is fanatically obsessed with the cold case; consumed by every possible clue or suspect no matter how far-fetched, she goes to horrifying lengths to help clarify the past. Meanwhile, Jim has become a shell of his former self, broken down and haunted—sometimes literally—by his young daughter’s death. Dani’s childhood sweetheart, Tom, handles his own grief every day on the job—he’s become a detective intent on solving murders of other young women, and hopes to one day close Dani’s case himself.
Then everything changes when Tom finds a promising new lead. As lies and secrets are unearthed, the heartbreaking truth behind Dani’s murder is finally revealed.
THE LAST WINTER OF DANI LANCING is a shockingly disturbing and deeply powerful debut, and P.D. Viner immediately joins the ranks of Tana French, A. S. A. Harrison, and Gillian Flynn.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A complicated structure, including leaps from character to character and shifts back and forth in time, interferes with the reader's enjoyment of British author Viner's ambitious first novel, a psychological thriller. Twenty years after the unsolved murder and rape of 21-year-old Londoner Dani Lancing, who was attending university in Durham, Dani's father, Jim, is literally living with Dani's ghost a ghost who cannot remember the circumstances of her death. Dani's mother, Patricia, left Jim years earlier; she is so obsessed with her search for her daughter's killer that she's unable to relate to another human being. Det. Supt. Tom Bevans, an appealing figure whose unrequited love of Dani drove him to find a career in helping victims and their families, has news for the Lancings: Dani's case is going to be reopened, and old evidence reexamined with state-of-the-art methods. The satisfying ending, though a bit of stretch, makes up for the stuttering plot and disorienting flashbacks.
