Dead of Winter: A Lily Dale Mystery (Lily Dale Mysteries)

Just as a murderer dumps his corpse into the lake across Valley View in Lily Dale, Bella Jordan happens to be at her window, not quite realizing what she s seeing. Unbeknownst to her, the killer spots her silhouette and prowls straight to her door. That is, until he s interrupted by a black cat. A superstitious gambler, he takes off, but Bella s seen too much, and he vows to return.

Jiffy Arden, a neighborhood kid looking for the black cat and stumbling across the killer, begins to have premonitions of being kidnapped during the season s first snowstorm. Sure enough, when it strikes, he vanishes, never arriving home from the bus stop. While her son, Max, believes Jiffy has been kidnapped, Bella is convinced he s just wandered off as he typically does until a body shows up in the lake.

Now everyone is pulling out all the stops to find the missing child, identify the victim, and collar the killer. And fast, because he s coming for Bella next in Dead of Winter.