Approaching Christmas, a winter blizzard glazes Chicago in Arctic snow. Among other residents, retired FBI poisons expert Tad Lindholm is a haunted man. Haunted by his past, haunted by his recently dead lover Yvette, haunted by bottomless depression, drowning in booze and tempted by an arsenal of deadly doses. At the same time he is trapped by suspicions that he alone is responsible for killing Yvette and her former lover. Numb with stubbornness, encircled by intersecting mysteries, Lindholm pursues the real killers among his enemies, only to discover an unimaginably personal betrayal.
Featured in Wikipedia, internationally best-selling author David L. Hoof is an
accomplished teacher and award-winning short story writer, novelist and screenwriter. A
four time winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, he was chosen for Who's
Who in U.S. Writers, Editors and Poets. In 2014 he made the Spring list of Best
American Fiction Writers and earned an Editor's Choice for The E.M. Koeppel
Short Fiction Contest Winner. A member of The Washington Irving Literary Society
of Cornell University, his works sells in 29 countries, 5 in translation and enjoy a
Goodreads rating of 4.82. By critics, previous novels have been praised as a "tour
de force," and "literature." Written among six genres, his novels include Sight
Unseen, Blind Man's Bluff, Blind Rage, The Last Prisoner, Invasion of Privacy, The
Suicide Diary, Little Gods, Triple Jeopardy, Sharpshooter, A Death in Munich and
Landfill. He is an emeritus professor of creative writing at Georgetown University
and lives with his wife Marsha in Washington, DC.
