Through the Evil Days: A Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery Author: Julia Spencer-Fleming | Language: English | ISBN:
B00AQUTOD8 | Format: EPUB
Through the Evil Days: A Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery Description
In Through the Evil Days, New York Times bestselling author Julia Spencer-Fleming raises the stakes for Russ and Clare, putting their new marriage, their unborn child, a missing teen, and their very own lives on the line.
On a frigid January night, Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson are called to the scene of a raging fire. The extent of the tragedy isn't known until the next day, when the charred remains of a man and woman are recovered—along with evidence showing they were shot execution style.
The last thing Russ needs are two potential homicides. He's struggling with the prospect of impending fatherhood, and his new wife is not at all happy with his proposal for their long-delayed honeymoon: a week ice-fishing at a remote Adirondack lake.
St. Alban's Church is still in turmoil over the Reverend Clare Fergusson's news that she's five and a half months pregnant—but only two and a half months married. Worried her post-deployment drinking and drug use may have damaged the baby, she awaits the outcome of the bishop's investigation into her "unpriestly" behavior: a scolding, censure, or permanent suspension.
Officer Hadley Knox is having a miserable January as well. Her on-again, off-again lover, Kevin Flynn, has seven days to weigh an offer from the Syracuse Police Department that might take him half a state away. And her ex-husband's in town—threatening to take custody of their kids unless Hadley pays him off with money she doesn't have.
When Hadley discovers that the dead couple fostered an eight-year-old girl who was a recent liver donee, the search for the killer takes on a new and terrible urgency. With no access to immunosuppressant drugs, transplant rejection will kill the girl in a matter of days.
As a deadly ice storm downs power lines and immobilizes roads, Russ and Clare search desperately for the truth about the missing child, but the hunters will become the hunted when they are trapped in the cabin beside the frozen lake and stalked through the snowbound woods by a killer.
- File Size: 1406 KB
- Print Length: 418 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1472200004
- Publisher: Minotaur Books; 1st edition (November 5, 2013)
- Sold by: Macmillan
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00AQUTOD8
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,573 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
Millers Kill is a small town in upstate New York, and is the kind of town where tax revenues and the population are decreasing, but crime is not. It is also the type of small town where neighbors know each other and there are few secrets, including those of Clare Fergusson, an Episcopal priest and her husband Russ van Alstyne, the Police Chief. Recently married, the couple is expecting a baby that they had not planned for and was conceived before their wedding. Struggling to adapt to the new changes in their lives, the couple is woken late one night when Russ is called out to a house fire with presumed fatalities. Claire is asked to come along to help counsel the volunteer fire fighters, little knowing that this house fire would set off a deadly chain of crime.
Looking forward to their vacation in a remote cabin, Claire and Russ leave town, and offer to drop off a young woman at her uncle's cabin on their way. Shortly after they arrive at their own rented house, a fierce winter storm rains ice and then snow on them, leaving Claire and Russ isolated and with almost no way to contact the outside world. Back in Millers Kill, the fire has turned into a double homicide and the kidnapping of a young girl. The small police department stretches their resources to hunt down what turns out to be a ring of methadone dealers, undercover drug agents, and layers of falsehoods, all while the ice storm makes the roads almost impassable and takes out both electrical power and communications.
Through the Evil Days deftly mixes the personal lives of the characters with a series of brutal crimes. Russ and Claire are forced to face their insecurities in themselves and their marriage, and their fears of the future.
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