Bella Jordan has started a new life for herself and her son Max in Lily
Dale. Lily Dale is a strange little town. It seems that most of the people
there have a sixth sense. Bella's neighbor Misty Arden is raising her son
Jiffy and she also does readings for people. Misty also sees Elvis a lot.
One day everything is going to change for the town. Bella sees
something out of her window; she just can't tell if it is a real human or a
ghost. Misty is trying to give a reading to someone, but all that comes
up is a school bus with her father who has passed driving it. Could the
two things have something in common? Several things happen the next
day, a body is found on the lake, Lily Dale is about to get hit with a
blizzard, and Jiffy goes missing.
While everyone is out looking for Jiffy, Misty finds herself confronted
by a strange man in the woods. Misty feels that this man may know
what has happened to Jiffy. Bella speaks with Max about Jiffy's
disappearance, Max claims that Jiffy was kidnapped and he knew he
was going to be. Nothing seems to be adding up. Who would want to
kidnap Jiffy? Not his father, who is overseas. Finally, the mystery man
tells Misty the only thing that he knows about Jiffy's whereabouts: he
claims some women put him in the back of her car and drove off.
So in the DEAD OF WINTER, will
Jiffy be found? Only time will tell!
Wendy Corsi Staub writes once again a great mystery. I really enjoyed
the way that Staub describes the scenery in DEAD OF WINTER. I am not a fan of snow, but in this
book I enjoyed it. At times this book got a little slow. But don't give up
keep reading because it quickly picks up the pace. Staub kept me
guessing as to who could have kidnapped Jiffy, along with the
connection the man in the woods, and all of the havoc that was going
on in Lily Dale. Keep reading this book all of your questions will be
answered!
Just as a murderer dumps his corpse into the lake across
Valley View in Lily Dale, Bella Jordan happens to be at her
window, not quite realizing what she’s seeing. Unbeknownst
to her, the killer spots her silhouette and prowls straight
to her door. That is, until he’s interrupted by a black cat.
A superstitious gambler, he takes off, but Bella’s seen too
much, and he vows to return.
Jiffy Arden, a
neighborhood kid looking for the black cat and stumbling
across the killer, begins to have premonitions of being
kidnapped during the season’s first snowstorm. Sure enough,
when it strikes, he vanishes, never arriving home from the
bus stop. While her son, Max, believes Jiffy has been
kidnapped, Bella is convinced he’s just wandered off as he
typically does… until a body shows up in the
lake.
Now everyone is pulling out all the stops to
find the missing child, identify the victim, and collar the
killer. And fast, because he’s coming for Bella next in
Dead of Winter.
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