Catch your death

Two cold-case homicide detectives take on an investigation that strains their partnership to the limit. Now that they've both saved each other's lives, detectives Lauren Riley and Shane Reese of the Buffalo Police Department live together in Lauren's house in a delicately balanced relationship that teeters on the romantic. While they're out gathering information, they run into Reese's high school classmate Chris Sloane, who's opening a luxury spa just south of Ellicottville in New York's Southern Tier snow belt. Soon after Chris invites Reese and Lauren to join a small group of friends at a reunion at his spa, Lauren realizes that a cold-case file she reviewed before Reese joined the squad concerned the murder of one of his high school classmates; the fact that he'd never mentioned his connection to the case shakes her faith in his objectivity. At the spa, Lauren meets the group, which includes Reese's high school sweetheart, Amanda, and her jealous husb Tyler Owstrowski, slimy former football star; podcaster Erica Diaz and her husb and wealthy computer genius Seth Creehan. Erica, who specializes in true-crime stories, claims that she's about to blow open the case of their murdered classmate. That night Erica's throat is cut and a blizzard blows in, cutting off the area and leaving Lauren to manage the case with only a phone connection to the state police, who are busy evacuating stranded motorists. Now that Reese is a possible suspect, Lauren risks her life to get the evidence to prove him innocent. A riveting exploration of the human relationships entangled in a cold case and set against a frozen backdrop. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.