Dead for the Winter - Hardcover

Thornton, Betsy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0709079338 ISBN 13: 9780709079330

Publisher: RBJT6, 2006

Synopsis

This is number five in the Chloe Newcombe series. Chloe finds herself a suspect in the murder of Terry Barnett, a gifted carpenter, shot to death in his workshop in Prophecy, Arizona, a former religous community. In a conversation with Chloe before his death, Terry had talked about a mysterious woman, April, and Chloe is convinced that April is somehow connected to his murder. But who is April? The more Chloe investigates--meeting with Heather, Terry's artist wife and Fred, his estranged brother; travelling to Ohio to check into Terry's past-- April becomes more and more an illusion, a dream figure out of the past who may herself have been murdered. A trivia note: Thornton has included the title of every song in the Radiohead album the Bends, somewhere in the book.

About this title

About the Author:

Betsy Thornton lives in Bisbee, Arizona, where she works for the Cochise County Attorney's Victim Witness Program as a victim compensation advocate and a victim advocate. This is the fourth book in her series of the adventures of amateur sleuth Chloe Newcombe.

From Publishers Weekly:

At the start of Thornton's fourth intricate puzzle to feature Chloe Newcombe (after 2002's Ghost Towns), the Cochise County, Ariz., victim's advocate is assigned to assist artist Heather Stephens after Heather's husband, carpenter Terry Barnett, is found dead in his burning barn. The problem is, Chloe hired Terry to make a bookcase for her and in the process was attracted to him. During dinner across the border in Mexico, Terry told her he was married, and she refused to see him again. Chloe's concern for Heather, when it becomes clear that Terry was shot first, drives her to try to unravel some highly tangled relationships in search of the killer. Did his wife tire of his infidelities? Was there a dissatisfied client? What of his estranged brother in Ohio? Terry went back there for a time to care for his dying mother and contacted a childhood friend. Herself a victim's advocate, Thornton writes what she knows. She takes great care in describing this community whose members are bound together in spite of their need for independence. In showing more than one type of victim, the author doesn't shy away from the possibility of failure on Chloe's part. She keeps Chloe and the reader just a bit off kilter right up to the closing teaser about her heroine's future.
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About this edition

• Publisher: RBJT6
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0709079338
• ISBN 13: 9780709079330
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224