Wolf Lake — John Verdon

The fifth thriller in this bestselling series offers a “complex, engrossing mystery” that “will challenge what you believe . . . about the banality of evil” (Tod Goldberg, author of Gangsterland).

Retired homicide detective Dave Gurney visits a spooky Adirondack inn to investigate 4 terrifying but seemingly unrelated deaths . . .

Could a nightmare be used as a murder weapon? That's the provocative question confronting retired homicide detective Dave Gurney. Four people scattered across the country, and with little in common, report having the same dream -- a terrifying nightmare involving a bloody dagger with a carved wolf's head on the handle. All four are subsequently found with their wrists cut -- apparent suicides -- by none other than the weapon they dreamt of.

Troubled by odd holes in the police's official approach to the case, Gurney begins his own investigation -- an action that puts him and his beloved wife, Madeline, in the crosshairs of an icy murderer, the local police, and the darkest corner of the federal government. As a ruthless blizzard traps him in a spooky Adirondack inn called Wolf Lake Lodge, Gurney must throw himself into a deadly battle of wits with the most frightening opponent he has ever faced.

Wolf Lake is another page�"turning thriller by a writer hailed by the New York Times as “masterly” -- and reunites readers with Dave Gurney, a detective cut from the same cloth as Sherlock Holmes.