| SJ Rozan: Titles: Winter and Night
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| This woman can write! With WINTER AND NIGHT, SJ Rozan paints with the full palette of the human heart using depth, detail, and nuance of character that I haven't seen since Raymond Chandler. (Yes, I mean it.) Rozan delivers a wonderful mystery that is also a full-bodied novel about the pressures we place on ourselves and loved ones,
and how these pressures can crush us." "SJ Rozan is, hands-down, one of my favorite crime writers working today. To read her is to experience the kind of pure pleasure that only a master can deliver." Description In the middle of the night, private investigator Bill Smith is awakened by a
call from the NYPD. They're holding a 15-year-old kid named Gary -- a kid
Bill knows. But before Bill can find out what is going on, Gary escapes
Bill's custody into the dark night and unfamiliar streets. Bill, with the
help of his partner Lydia Chin, tries to find the missing teen and uncover
what it is that led him so far from home. Tracking Gary's family to a small
town in New Jersey, Bill finds himself in a town where nothing matters but
high school football, where the secrets of the past - both the town's and
Bill's own - threaten to destroy the present. And if Bill is to have any
chance of saving Gary and preventing a tragedy, he has to both unravel a long
buried crime and confront the darkness of his own past.]
S. J. Rozan is the author of seven previous novels, most recently Reflecting
the Sky. She has won both the Shamus Award for Best Novel (for Concourse) and
the Anthony Award for Best Novel (for No Colder Place) and was an Edgar Award
finalist. Rozan is an architect, born and currently living in New York City. excerpt
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