Two hundred million dollars buried under Cleveland's cultural renaissance. Four people dead to keep it there.
When a forensic accountant's car is found on Cleveland's ice-covered Shoreway, her death is ruled an accident. But Chief Meteorologist Brooke Wilder knows the ice tells a different story. Her minute-by-minute analysis of the historic ice storm proves the crash was staged, and the evidence points to the same shadowy network that has already claimed three lives.
As the worst ice event in Cleveland's history collapses power lines and paralyzes the city, Brooke and her estranged husband, FBI Special Agent Frank Wilder, are forced into close quarters when his apartment loses power. What begins as emergency shelter becomes something neither expected: a chance to unpack more than boxes. But the deeper Frank digs into the financial conspiracy connecting a dead actor, a murdered journalist, and a stolen set of photographs Brooke took two years ago, the more dangerous their world becomes.
Someone is buying Cleveland's media infrastructure. Someone is laundering two hundred million dollars through the city's cultural renaissance. And someone has decided that Brooke Wilder knows too much to live.
With a killer's trail hidden beneath melting ice and a conspiracy reaching into the highest levels of civic power, Brooke and Frank must trust each other with the truth, including secrets they have carried alone for years, before the thaw erases the evidence and the next name on the list becomes one of theirs.
The road should have been clear. The accountant should have been alive. The marriage should have been over.
Ice Line is the third novel in the WINTERKILL: Cleveland Crime Series — a gripping blend of romantic suspense, atmospheric thriller, and emotional reckoning set against the brutal beauty of a Cleveland winter. While it can be enjoyed as a standalone thriller, readers will find deeper resonance following Brooke and Frank's journey from the beginning with The Coldest Valentine (Book 1).
Content warning:Ice Line contains mature themes including pregnancy loss, grief, addiction recovery, and on-page intimacy. Reader discretion is advised.
WINTERKILL: A Cleveland Crime Series
Book 1: The Coldest Valentine
Book 2: Storm Cell
Book 3: Ice Line
Book 4 Lake Effect Lies
Book 5: Dead Calm
Genre: Mystery
When a forensic accountant's car is found on Cleveland's ice-covered Shoreway, her death is ruled an accident. But Chief Meteorologist Brooke Wilder knows the ice tells a different story. Her minute-by-minute analysis of the historic ice storm proves the crash was staged, and the evidence points to the same shadowy network that has already claimed three lives.
As the worst ice event in Cleveland's history collapses power lines and paralyzes the city, Brooke and her estranged husband, FBI Special Agent Frank Wilder, are forced into close quarters when his apartment loses power. What begins as emergency shelter becomes something neither expected: a chance to unpack more than boxes. But the deeper Frank digs into the financial conspiracy connecting a dead actor, a murdered journalist, and a stolen set of photographs Brooke took two years ago, the more dangerous their world becomes.
Someone is buying Cleveland's media infrastructure. Someone is laundering two hundred million dollars through the city's cultural renaissance. And someone has decided that Brooke Wilder knows too much to live.
With a killer's trail hidden beneath melting ice and a conspiracy reaching into the highest levels of civic power, Brooke and Frank must trust each other with the truth, including secrets they have carried alone for years, before the thaw erases the evidence and the next name on the list becomes one of theirs.
The road should have been clear. The accountant should have been alive. The marriage should have been over.
Ice Line is the third novel in the WINTERKILL: Cleveland Crime Series — a gripping blend of romantic suspense, atmospheric thriller, and emotional reckoning set against the brutal beauty of a Cleveland winter. While it can be enjoyed as a standalone thriller, readers will find deeper resonance following Brooke and Frank's journey from the beginning with The Coldest Valentine (Book 1).
Content warning:Ice Line contains mature themes including pregnancy loss, grief, addiction recovery, and on-page intimacy. Reader discretion is advised.
WINTERKILL: A Cleveland Crime Series
Book 1: The Coldest Valentine
Book 2: Storm Cell
Book 3: Ice Line
Book 4 Lake Effect Lies
Book 5: Dead Calm
Genre: Mystery