Highest Praise for Gregg Olsen Heart of Ice “Gregg Olsen will scare you—and you’ll love every moment of it.” —Lee Child “Olsen deftly juggles multiple plotlines.” —Publishers Weekly “Compelling, engrossing . . . an absorbing, enjoyable read.” —Romantic Times “Fiercely entertaining, fascinating . . . Olsen offers a unique background view into the very real world of crime . . . and that makes his novels ring true and accurate.” —Dark Scribe A Cold Dark Place “A great thriller that grabs you by the throat and takes you into the dark, scary places of the heart and soul.” —Kay Hooper “You’ll sleep with the lights on after reading Gregg Olsen’s dark, atmospheric, page-turning suspense . . . if you can sleep at all.” —Allison Brennan “A stunning thriller—a brutally dark story with a compelling, intricate plot.” —Alex Kava A Cold Dark Place “A page-turner . . . a work of dark, gripping suspense.” —Anne Frasier “This stunning thriller is the love child of Thomas Harris and Laura Lippman, with all the thrills and the sheer glued-to-the-page artistry of both.” —Ken Bruen “Olsen keeps the tension taut and pages turning.” —Publishers Weekly A Wicked Snow “Real narrative drive, a great setup, a gruesome crime, fine characters.” —Lee Child “A taut thriller.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer “Wickedly clever! A finely crafted, genuinely twisted tale of one mother’s capacity for murder and one daughter’s search for the truth.” —Lisa Gardner “Tightly plotted, gripping . . . an outstanding addition to the suspense genre.” —Allison Brennan “An irresistible page-turner.” —Kevin O’Brien “Complex mystery, crackling authenticity . . . will keep fans of crime fiction hooked.” —Publishers Weekly “A top-notch thriller . . . a powerhouse of a book.” —Donna Anders “Vivid, powerful, action-packed . . . a terrific, tense thriller that grips the reader.” —Midwest Book Review “Keeps the reader guessing and gulping from the very first page.” —Jay Bonansinga “Tight plotting, nerve-wracking suspense, and a wonderful climax make this debut a winner.” —Crimespree magazine “Wonderful . . . compelling and horrifyingly real.” —Seattle Mystery Bookshop “Olsen writes a real grabber of a book. If you’re smart, you’ll grab this one!” —Linda Lael Miller “A compelling story, tightly woven, that kept me riveted to the final page.” —Susan R. Sloan “A Wicked Snow’s plot—about a CSI investigator who’s repressed a horrific crime from her childhood until it comes back to haunt her—moves at a satisfyingly fast clip.” —Seattle Times Also by Gregg Olsen Heart of Ice A Cold Dark Place A Wicked Snow The Deep Dark If Loving You Is Wrong Abandoned Prayers Bitter Almonds Mockingbird (Cruel Deception) Starvation Heights Confessions of an American Black Widow GREGG OLSEN VICTIM SIX PINNACLE BOOKS Kensington Publishing Corp. All copyrighted material within is Attributor Protected. Table of Contents Praise Also by Title Page Dedication Prologue PART ONE - Celesta Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter
