Winter House

A reclusive senior citizen kills an intruder-but there's more to the story. In Carol O'Connell's new novel New York City officer Kathleen Mallory purges a woman of her mysterious past-and the flesh-and-blood ghosts of a violent family legacy. When a serial lady-killer is found with shears sticking out of his chest and an ice pick in his hand, Kathy Mallory and her NYPD Special Crimes partner Detective Sgt. Riker are called in to investigate. One of the occupants of Winter House, the scene of the crime, is 70-year-old Nedda Winter, who immediately confesses to the killing, claiming it was self-defence. Murder solved, case closed. It's even poetic justice. But Winter House is the site of a massacre that took place 50 years previously and doesn't give up its dead so easily. Mallory and Riker will have to reopen the original investigation in order to try and stop the murderer from finishing what they started When a burglar is caught in the act and killed by an ice pick-wielding home owner, Mallory discovers that the home owner is actually a long-lost child who vanished sixty years earlier following the massacre of her entire family with an ice pick Kriminalroman. Kathy Mallory undersøger et tilsyneladende tilfælde af selvforsvar, som snart afdækker en masse hemmeligheder