Approaching Christmas, a winter blizzard glazes Chicago in Arctic snow. Among other residents, retired FBI poisons expert Tad Lindholm is a haunted man. Haunted by his past, haunted by his recently dead lover Yvette, haunted by bottomless depression, drowning in booze and tempted by an arsenal of deadly doses. At the same time he is trapped by suspicions that he alone is responsible for killing Yvette and her former lover. Numb with stubbornness, encircled by intersecting mysteries, Lindholm pursues the real killers among his enemies, only to discover an unimaginably personal betrayal.Featured in Wikipedia, internationally best-selling author David L. Hoof is anaccomplished teacher and award-winning short story writer, novelist and screenwriter. Afour time winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, he was chosen for Who’sWho in U.S. Writers, Editors and Poets. In 2014 he made the Spring list of BestAmerican Fiction Writers and earned an Editor’s Choice for The E.M. KoeppelShort Fiction Contest Winner. A member of The Washington Irving Literary Societyof Cornell University, his works sells in 29 countries, 5 in translation and enjoy aGoodreads rating of 4.82. By critics, previous novels have been praised as a “tourde force,” and “literature.” Written among six genres, his novels include SightUnseen, Blind Man’s Bluff, Blind Rage, The Last Prisoner, Invasion of Privacy, TheSuicide Diary, Little Gods, Triple Jeopardy, Sharpshooter, A Death in Munich andLandfill. He is an emeritus professor of creative writing at Georgetown Universityand lives with his wife Marsha in Washington, DC.
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