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Heaven's Fury

A Novel

by Stephen Frey
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New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey thrills readers with the mesmerizing tale of a small-town sheriff who must confront the worst violence that man and nature possess.
Bruner, Wisconsin, is really two different towns. On one side are the magnificent summer estates of wealthy families who value their privacy and privilege above all else. A few miles away, but a world apart, are the homes of the working men and women who cook, clean, and tend to the needs of the summer visitors. It's a place of staggering natural beauty, but where death can come unexpectedly and with no regard for a person's bank account or family tree. A place of steadfast loyalties and friendships, but where the long and brutal winter can make even the most intimate friends turn on each other with frightening intensity.
This is the place where Sheriff Paul Summers finds himself grasping for answers when the wild, unpredictable woman who captured his heart years ago is discovered brutally and spectacularly murdered inside her family's snowbound estate. As the last person to see her alive, and given his complicated history with the victim, Paul is not only lead investigator on the case but, in the eyes of many in Bruner, the prime suspect in her killing. Battling rumors of an evil cult's being formed just outside of town, the disappearance of another citizen, and a wife whose grasp of reality is quickly slipping away, Paul must race to find the true guilty party before a massive winter storm leaves them all cut off from the outside world and at the mercy of a remorseless killer.
As the approaching storm gathers in intensity, so do the twists and turns that bring Paul ever closer to unraveling the big secrets that haunt this small town. In a stunning conclusion, Paul witnesses firsthand the startling power and beauty of heaven's fury.

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  • Series

    G UNIT

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  • Release date

    September 21, 2010

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      • ISBN: 9781439177136

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      • ISBN: 9781439177136
      • File size: 2171 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 23, 2010
      The plot of this stand-alone crime thriller from Frey (Hell's Gate) fails to generate much excitement, despite a gruesome murder that may be the work of a satanic cult and scenes set during a crippling snowstorm. Wisconsin sheriff Paul Summers, whose career has been on a downward spiral for years, makes one bad decision after another. In particular, he cheats on his wife by succumbing to the repeated efforts of attractive and well-connected Cindy Prescott Harrison to seduce him. When Harrison is found nailed to the floor of her mansion with her throat slit, Summers fights to retain control of the investigation, despite the obvious conflict of interest and even though he's less than honest about the events surrounding the murder with pretty much everyone. Frey's penchant for delaying the resolutions of cliffhangers in a first-person narrative annoys more than it intrigues. The cloying upbeat ending may strike some as undeserved.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 29, 2010
      Neither this crime novel’s setting—a rural Wisconsin town consisting of arrogant, wealthy weekenders and impoverished locals—nor its protagonist (the self-involved, brooding Sheriff Paul Summers) gives Michael McConnohie much to work with in terms of accent or character. And he doesn’t get much more help from a contrived plot in which Summers goes out of his way to become a suspect in the apparently ritualistic murder of the daughter of the wealthiest and nastiest of the power elite. Still, McConnohie is a professional: he adds a smooth, engaging vocal polish to the book’s rougher edges and even manages to make the hapless hero sound worthy of our interest. An Atria hardcover (Reviews, Aug. 23).

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