Cold to the Bone
A Nicole Cobain Mystery
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Publisher Description
The brutal murder of a teenager and a deadly medical drama plunge a small-town sheriff into a vortex of treachery and greed in the debut novel of Emery Hayes's A Nicole Cobain Mystery series.
First female sheriff of Toole County, Montana Nicole Cobain earned the position through mental and physical grit and when a young girl is found murdered on icy Lake Maria, every bit of it is tested. But what begins as a chase for the killer quickly unravels into a high stakes medical transaction with harrowing consequences.
Eight years ago, Nicole fled her fast-track position as a homicide detective with the Denver Police Department in an act of desperation to save both her son and herself. Answering a recruitment ad, she showed up in the foothills of Glacier National Park and was elected sheriff six years later. She has a measure of peace in her new surroundings, her son is thriving, and she has effectively distanced herself from her past. Until Benjamin Kris shows up again.
Benjamin is the father of Nicole's son and a big-time charmer who has quickly scaled the crime ladder. He has a large clientele and is looking forward to a big pay day that lands him in Toole. But when it becomes clear he could be a suspect among several others in town with opportunity and motive, it's up to Nicole to sift through the tangled threads to find the killer before they strike again.
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Single mother Nicole Cobain, the heroine of this flawed series launch from Hayes (Chloe Doe writing as Suzanne Phillips), escaped city life and a terrible relationship years earlier to become the first female sheriff of Montana's Toole County. She's now investigating the suspicious death of 14-year-old Beatrice Esparza, found lightly dressed and recently deceased in the snow. When Nicole looks into Beatrice's secretive family, she learns that the girl's well-to-do physician father was using her as a test subject for a possible cancer cure, which he's hoping to sell to the highest pharmaceutical bidder, with Nicole's vengeful ex brokering the deal. Hayes often introduces, then drops, figures designed to illuminate Nicole's personality, like her romantic interest, reliable medical examiner Robin McAuley, who disappears shortly after the discovery of Beatrice's body. Readers should be prepared for a lot of loose ends, clumsy red herrings, unconvincing characters, and a predictable climactic confrontation. Others have done a better job of exposing greed and Big Pharma.
