Dead Season: A Marcus Kane Mystery

A frozen doctor. A buried girl. One road out, and it's closing. Deputy Marcus Kane left Harlan's Bluff five years ago, the night his patrol car went off a service road in the dark and a local doctor pulled him out of the wreck. He never meant to come back. Then the same doctor turns up dead beneath a frozen waterfall, ruled an accident inside eight hours, and the sheriff who once buried Kane's questions asks him to return and look again. The body was warm when they found it. That is the first thing that is wrong, and in a town of two thousand people with one road in and one road out, it is very far from the last. As Kane pulls the thread, a beloved country doctor becomes something else entirely, a five-year-old overdose stops making sense, and every person Kane still trusts turns out to be protecting something, including the partner who is better at this than he is. A blizzard is coming. When it arrives, Route 7 will ice shut for weeks and Harlan's Bluff will become an island, sealed in with the man who built all of it, warm and smiling and two hundred and fourteen steps from Kane's door. Kane has until the road closes to prove what everyone in this valley already knows and no one will say. But the truth has been frozen under the ice for five years, and some things the mountain does not give back until spring. DEAD SEASON is the first installment in the Marcus Kane Mystery series: a slow-burn, psychologically layered thriller set in the high country of Colorado, for readers who like their murder mysteries cold, their small towns full of secrets, and their detectives carrying more than a badge.