Winter House - Couverture souple

When a known serial killer is found with shears sticking out of his chest and an ice pick in his hand, Kathy Mallory and her NYPD Special Crimes partner Detective Sgt. Riker are called in to investigate. One of the occupants of Winter House, the scene of the crime, is 70-year-old Nedda Winter, who immediately confesses to the killing, claiming it was self-defence.

Murder solved, case closed. It's even poetic justice.

However Ned Winter is in fact the most famous lost child in NYPD history, missing for almost sixty years, thought to be kidnapped following the massacre of her family ... with an ice pick.

As Mallory and her official and unofficial partners, Riker and Charles Butler, delve into the family's history, a remarkable story begins to emerge - one of murderous greed and family horror, abandonment and loss, revenge and twisted love ...

Intricate plotting, resonant characters and incisive prose make Winter House O'Connell's most powerful - and most astonishing - novel to date.

When a serial lady-killer is found with shears sticking out of his chest and an ice pick in his hand, Kathy Mallory and her NYPD Special Crimes partner Detective Sgt. Riker are called in to investigate. One of the occupants of Winter House, the scene of the crime, is 70-year-old Nedda Winter, who immediately confesses to the killing, claiming it was self-defence. Murder solved, case closed. It's even poetic justice. But Winter House is the site of a massacre that took place 50 years previously and doesn't give up its dead so easily. Mallory and Riker will have to reopen the original investigation in order to try and stop the murderer from finishing what they started.