This was a quick-paced mystery. Maura Isles is a medical examiner in Boston and has been involved with a priest for a year. The affair is tearing her up because she wants more than Daniel can promise at the moment. She leaves Boston and Daniel for a week to attend a medical conference in Idaho. While there she runs into a guy she knew in school. He recognized Maura right away. She finally remembered him - he was the one that jumped off a roof and broke his leg. Although he doesn't appear to have matured, Doug is the type of distraction Maura could use. At the end of the conference she decides to stay out West for an extra day when Doug talks her into a skiing trip. It is not meant to be a romantic tryst - they will be traveling with Doug's teenage daughter and his friends Arlo and Elaine. On the way to the lodge Doug loses control of the SUV in a blizzard and they are stranded. They stumble across the remote village of Kingdom Come - twelve identical houses. But no one is home. It looks as if they left in a hurry - food is still on the table, milk frozen in the glasses. Aha - a mystery! There are some spooky things happening and it kept me reading with great interest. Tess Gerritsen delivers again!
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