Colorado Gold MYSTERY AWARD WINNER. Daphne du Maurier Suspense Finalist: His Hand In the Storm: Book 1 in the Inspector Gray Series.

“Outside, the thousand-dollar suit; inside, the storm.”

Even after the accidental death of his small son – especially after the death of his son – Chief Inspector Gray James solves each and every case with perfection and startling efficiency. Leading him to an atavistic personal truth: he needs the next case, like he did the last, and the one before that. That someone has to die to provide this objectionable fix bothers him, but these oscillations between calm and obsession beat the alternative: to once again care about what happens.

One morning and one case change all that.

Montreal glitters in the snow: the cafes and bistros bustling with activity even on the coldest days, the cobbled streets made slippery by the ice, and the mighty St. Lawrence jetting eastward through the bottom of the city. But a mutilated corpse swings from a tree in an urban beach park, the victim’s crumpled suit rippling in the wind like the white-tipped surface of the adjacent river. Instigating a sequence of events that unleash the hurricane inside Gray. And make him face what he has most avoided: his hand in the storm.

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