Come Winter
A Novel
Published on 6. June 2017
224 pages
978-1-5040-4394-6 (ISBN)
Description
A glamorous ski resort becomes the setting for unspeakable evil in this "chilling, fascinating novel" by the
New York Times-bestselling author of
Last Summer (
Los Angeles Times).
Sandy, David, and Peter met as bored teenagers vacationing with their parents on a small resort island. The horrific crime they committed five years ago bound them together forever, cursing their friendship in blood and setting them on a path toward nihilism and destruction.
Now in their early twenties, the glamorous and sophisticated trio has come to an exclusive ski resort just days before Christmas to satisfy their appetite for danger and enjoy the physical company of the only human beings they can still tolerate: one another. But an interloper soon finds her way into their closed circle. Mary Margaret is no gullible innocent. She's smart and mischievous and appears bent on tearing the friends apart. Will Sandy, Peter, and David keep their sinister ménage-à-trois intact, or have they finally met their match? On the steep and icy slopes of Semanee Peak, a dangerous game of cat and mouse comes to a shattering end.
"An unforgettable exploration into the nature of evil," Come Winter is the chilling sequel to Last Summer and a "brilliant... dazzling" portrait of young sociopaths at play ( Burlington Free Press).
Sandy, David, and Peter met as bored teenagers vacationing with their parents on a small resort island. The horrific crime they committed five years ago bound them together forever, cursing their friendship in blood and setting them on a path toward nihilism and destruction.
Now in their early twenties, the glamorous and sophisticated trio has come to an exclusive ski resort just days before Christmas to satisfy their appetite for danger and enjoy the physical company of the only human beings they can still tolerate: one another. But an interloper soon finds her way into their closed circle. Mary Margaret is no gullible innocent. She's smart and mischievous and appears bent on tearing the friends apart. Will Sandy, Peter, and David keep their sinister ménage-à-trois intact, or have they finally met their match? On the steep and icy slopes of Semanee Peak, a dangerous game of cat and mouse comes to a shattering end.
"An unforgettable exploration into the nature of evil," Come Winter is the chilling sequel to Last Summer and a "brilliant... dazzling" portrait of young sociopaths at play ( Burlington Free Press).
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Person
Evan Hunter (1926-2005) was one of the best-loved mystery novelists of the twentieth century. Born Salvatore Lambino in New York City, he served in the US Navy during World War II and briefly worked as a teacher after graduating from Hunter College. The experience provided the inspiration for his debut novel,
The Blackboard Jungle (1954), which was published under his new legal name and adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier.
Cop Hater (1956), the first entry in the 87th Precinct series, was written under the pen name Ed McBain. The long-running series, which followed an ensemble cast of police officers in the fictional city of Isola, is widely credited with inventing the police procedural genre. As a screenwriter, Hunter adapted a Daphne du Maurier short story into the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's
The Birds and turned his own bestselling novel,
Strangers When We Meet (1958), into the script for a film starring Kirk Douglas and Kim Novak. His other novels include the
New York Times bestseller
Mothers and Daughters (1961),
Buddwing (1964),
Last Summer (1968), and
Come Winter (1973). Among his many honors, Hunter was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America and was the first American to receive the Cartier Diamond Dagger award from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- One: Foderman
- Two: Mary Margaret
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
