A Body in Winter:

A Gideon Shaw Mystery

By Harlan Voss
Published by North Watch House Publishing

Seventeen years ago, Caroline Avery disappeared.

Her family buried an empty coffin. Her husband lived under suspicion. Her children grew up believing their mother was dead.

Then, during a brutal Chicago winter, Caroline's body is discovered beneath the ice near Navy Pier.

There is just one problem.

She has been dead less than forty-eight hours.

Homicide detective Lena Mercer calls in former FBI behavioral analyst Gideon Shaw to help unravel a case that should be impossible. As they investigate Caroline's missing years, they discover that her disappearance was no accident. Someone helped her vanish, someone kept her hidden, and someone finally decided she had lived long enough.

The deeper Gideon and Lena dig, the more the case begins to collide with Gideon's own unresolved past.

Caroline knew about Rebecca Holloway.

She knew about Elliot Crane.

And before she died, she left behind evidence suggesting that the truth Gideon has been chasing for years may be far more complicated than he ever imagined.

But every answer creates another question.

Who was Caroline hiding from?

Why did she return to Chicago?

And what secret was dangerous enough to keep buried for seventeen years?

Dark, atmospheric, and filled with psychological suspense, forensic twists, buried secrets, and mounting emotional tension, A Body in Winter is the gripping third novel in the Gideon Shaw Mystery series.

For readers who enjoy intelligent murder mysteries, cold-case investigations, layered conspiracies, complex investigators, and stories where the past is never quite as dead as it seems.