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Winter of Secrets
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2019 recipient of the Derrick Murdoch award from the Crime Writers of Canada

"Delaney glides between scenes with ease. She uses a bare-bones style, without literary flash, to achieve artistry as sturdy and restrained as a Shaker chair."—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review

Siblings Wendy and Jason Wyatt-Yarmouth and their friends have come to the peaceful mountain town of Trafalgar, B.C. to enjoy a two-week vacation of skiing, drinking, drugs, and sex. But tragedy strikes when two of the group crash through the ice into the frozen river.

It's Christmas Eve and the snowstorm of the decade has settled over the town. Constables Molly Smith and Dave Evans are busy attending to fender-benders, tumbling pedestrians, and Christmas tree fires. Then, at the stroke of midnight, they are summoned to the scene of an accident: a car has gone off the snowy road into the river. Police, coroner, and medics all agree it was an accident. But when the autopsy reveals a shocking secret, Molly and Sergeant John Winters are plunged into a world of sexual predators, recreational drugs, privilege, and high-living.

Meanwhile, stalker Charlie Bassing is out of jail and looking for revenge, a handsome Mountie is giving Molly the eye, and her mother, Lucky, is cheerfully interfering in the investigation. And all Molly wants to do is ski the powder....

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2019 recipient of the Derrick Murdoch award from the Crime Writers of Canada

"Delaney glides between scenes with ease. She uses a bare-bones style, without literary flash, to achieve artistry as sturdy and restrained as a Shaker chair."—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review

Siblings Wendy and Jason Wyatt-Yarmouth and their friends have come to the peaceful mountain town of Trafalgar, B.C. to enjoy a two-week vacation of skiing, drinking, drugs, and sex. But tragedy strikes when two of the group crash through the ice into the frozen river.

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Meanwhile, stalker Charlie Bassing is out of jail and looking for revenge, a handsome Mountie is giving Molly the eye, and her mother, Lucky, is cheerfully interfering in the investigation. And all Molly wants to do is ski the powder....

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        The discovery early one Christmas morning of the bodies of best friends Jason Wyatt-Yarmouth and Ewan Williams, two privileged young men from Toronto, in an SUV sunken in an ice-covered river propels Delaney's stellar third mystery to feature constable Molly Smith of Trafalgar, B.C. (after Feb. 2009's "Valley of the Lost"). Molly investigates what at first appears to be an accident, but when the times and manner of Jason's and Ewan's deaths turn out to differ, she and her colleagues have a murder case on their hands. Whether at the Glacier Chalet B&B, on a black diamond ski trail or in the police station, Delaney glides between scenes with ease. She uses a bare-bones style, without literary flash, to achieve artistry as sturdy and restrained as a Shaker chair. Warmth and menace, past and present, are nicely balanced, with a denouement that's equally plausible and startling. This confident performance is sure to win new fans to the series. "(Nov.)" .

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        Starred review from September 21, 2009
        The discovery early one Christmas morning of the bodies of best friends Jason Wyatt-Yarmouth and Ewan Williams, two privileged young men from Toronto, in an SUV sunken in an ice-covered river propels Delaney's stellar third mystery to feature constable Molly Smith of Trafalgar, B.C. (after Feb. 2009's Valley of the Lost
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        October 1, 2009
        Christmas break turns deadly for bickering, oversexed collegians.

        Jason and Ewan fail to appear at the Glacier Chalet B&B in the Canadian Northwest to open Christmas presents with their student pals Rob, Jeremy, Alan and Alan's lover Sophie, plus a pair of non-students, Jason's sister Wendy and his vacation conquest, the sluttish Lorraine. Their yellow SUV has skidded in the snowstorm and careened into the icy river. Jason dies in the accident, but the autopsy shows that Ewan was dead long before. Why was Jason, a medical student, driving around with his buddy's corpse in his vehicle? Sgt. John Winters and newly promoted Constable Molly Smith (Valley of the Lost, 2009, etc.) are charged with finding out. First on their agenda: interview the pair's friends, who excel at bickering, pummeling each other and sleeping around. Next, fend off Jason's overbearing, name-dropping parents. Finally, turn to Molly's mom Lucky, mainstay of a Woman's Support Center, who fortuitously pops up to help the B&B owner, wayward Lorraine and Jason's mom, a disgruntled wife. Snow falls. More snow falls. Even plows and police cars are slowed, leading to another fatality, this one on an unmarked ski trail.

        Winters, who never finds enough time alone with his beloved wife, and Smith, who has a stalker after her, must also suffer through Delany's lumpy prose and none-too-serviceable plot. A misstep, then, to be savored only by those unsentimental about the holidays.

        (COPYRIGHT (2009) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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"Delaney glides between scenes with ease. She uses a bare-bones style, without literary flash, to achieve artistry as sturdy and restrained as a Shaker chair."—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review

Siblings Wendy and Jason Wyatt-Yarmouth and their friends have come to the peaceful mountain town of Trafalgar, B.C. to enjoy a two-week vacation of skiing, drinking, drugs, and sex. But tragedy strikes when two of the group crash through the ice into the frozen river.

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