Cold as Hell

In Armstrong’s third “Haven’s Rock” book (following The Boy Who Cried Bear), it’s winter, and Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are expecting their first child in a few weeks. In their off-the-grid sanctuary town, deep in the Yukon forest, problems have surfaced once again. One night, a woman resident is drugged and dragged into the forest but fortunately escapes unharmed. As (bad) luck would have it, a severe snowstorm hits Haven’s Rock just as Casey and Eric begin their investigation. When another woman disappears during the snowstorm and is later found frozen to death, it is assumed she died from hypothermia. But as they try to piece together her last movements, clues point to a different cause of death. After a third woman is attacked and left for dead in the forest, Casey and Eric have to unmask an imposter to keep their community from unraveling.