15).Īnother of John Sandford’s strong points particularly evident in this novel is the use of interesting characters to keep a series from becoming stale. 3)Īnd Lucas Davenport fits right in with this bleak landscape: “The place might have been snatched from a frozen suburb of hell. All together they sounded like the maundering approach of something wicked, a beast with claws and fangs that rattled on the clapboard siding, searching for a grip. The arbor vitae would paw at the windows, the bare birch branches would scratch at the eaves. The forest pressed in: the pine and spruce tiptoed closer, to bend over the house with an unbearable weight. In this novel the personification of a brutal northern winter contributes to the menacing suspense: When another teenager is murdered, Davenport realizes that anyone he has talked to in his investigation is in danger.Ĭreating a dark, sinister, menacing atmosphere is one of John Sandford’s strong points. The investigation quickly escalates to include the murder of a teenage boy a few months earlier and the possible existence of a local child pornography ring. When a multiple murder occurs in a nearby small town, the local sheriff realizes he’s in over his head and calls in Davenport, the famous former Minneapolis cop, to help apprehend the killer known as the Iceman. Lucas Davenport is spending the coldest winter anyone can remember in his cabin in northern Wisconsin.
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