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| Stone Cold Dead |
It's the year 1960 and it's almost Christmas. And it's also when fifteen-year-old Darleen Hicks, after having disembarked from her school bus on her way back home, vanishes, never to be seen again. But when her grief-stricken mother Irene Metzger's appeals for help go unheeded - the local police think she has eloped with someone she has fallen hard for - she reaches out to firebrand reporter Ellie Stone in what might very well be her last hope. And it will be up to Ellie to trace Darleen, braving the severe cold that's enveloped the small upstate New York town of New Holland. Well, if you are anyone like me, you should be able to guess what awaits Darleen, it's like as if her fate is sort of preordained you know, but James W. Ziskin's
Stone Cold Dead is anything but that, the very definition of a suspenseful (historical) mystery, easily propelled forward by a likeable, plucky (if a little reckless) protagonist. It's a story that will have you excitedly staying up wee hours into the night just to finish it.
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