by Philip C. Stead
“I have to write a story today…But I don’t have any ideas,” the author says. He takes his dog for a walk and experiences the serendipity of a sunny day and a searching mind.
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Trouble hits the California slopes when Wylie Welborn, the illegitimate grandson of a California ski resort’s patriarch, returns from Afghanistan. Wylie falls for celebrity snowboarder April Holly, an Olympic Hopeful, while facing the aftermath of the bloodshed that killed his father and fractured two families.
Amelia Sachs is moments from catching a killer when a malfunctioning escalator inside the Brooklyn department store forces her to rush to a mangled man’s aid. When Amelia and famous detective Lincoln Rhyme realize similar attacks are the work of a killer bent on turning everyday products into fatal weapons, the two race to unmask the killer and piece together a plot that could kill more people than it already has.
A brief stop at Private’s Paris office turns deadly when Jack Morgan learns that his client’s young grandaughter, on the run from a vicious drug dealer, has gone missing. When someone symbolically murders some of France’s most elite, Jack must find the connection between a graffiti tag and the missing girl before the ethnic and religious tension finally explodes.