Wendy Corsi Staub

Dead of Winter Wendy Corsi Staub

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 shes seeing. Unbeknownst to her, the killer spots her silhouette and prowls straight to her door. That is, until hes interrupted by a black cat. A superstitious gambler, he takes off, but Bellas 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 seasons 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 hes 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 hes coming for Bella next in Dead of Winter.