WINTER AT THE DOOR
Sarah Graves
Bantam Books
January 2015
I first discovered Sarah Graves' Home Repair is Homicide series when I received a galley for the most recent in that seris, A Bat in the Belfry. As a long-time Maine "summer complaint" I was surprised that I had not seen the series before and enjoyed it. I have since read my way through the series and looked forward to the new one featuring Lizzie Snow, the tough homicide cop we met in A Bat in the Belfry.
Lizzie is in the Boston PD when she receives word of a sighting of her long-lost niece, Nicki. Lizzie's sister's body was discovered about eight years before in Maine and the child has been missing ever since. The trouble is that news of the sighting came from the ex-homicide cop who broke her heart, Dylan Hudson. Lizzie is not quite sure whether to trust him but feels that it might be her last chance to find the child. She takes an assistant deputy job in remote Bearkill, Maine and plans to search for Nicki. Meanwhile, Sheriff Cody Chevrier has his own ulterior motive for hiring Lizzie. There has been a string of deaths of ex-cops, all ruled accidents or suicides, but Cody believes that they are murders. He needs an experienced murder cop to help him prove it.
There is a whole lot going on under the surface of Bearkill, Maine. Drug trafficking, murder, kidnapping, and stalking all happen in this little town. But no one is willing to talk about any of it. Lizzie is immensely likable, tough and plain-spoken but kind underneath. The supporting characters, both good and bad, leap off the the page and the Great Northern Woods form a brooding backdrop. I thought that some of the threads came together a little too easily at the end of the book but I am looking forward to the sequel. Sarah Graves has really upped her game in Winter at the Door.
RATING-4.5 Stars
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