Maureen Milliken – författare

Bernadette "Bernie" O''Dea, editor of the Peaks Weekly Watcher, can finally get back on track as a journalist after a melting snowbank in Redimere, Maine, reveals a body. But as spring turns into a long, hot, explosive and tragic summer, the town is ripped in half. What started out as a sad story about a mysterious death becomes something way too big for Bernie to handle. As the town''s secrets emerge, Bernie realizes she''s on a path that could cost her-and others-their lives.  

A grisly discovery in the woods of Redimere, Maine, resurrects an old case of Police Chief Pete Novotny''s involving a missing boy, but it''s just one of the ghosts that haunts the town in the second of the Bernie O''Dea mystery series.

As Pete struggles with demons both old and new, newspaper editor Bernadette "Bernie" O''Dea''s life is complicated by the sudden appearance of her brother, who has secrets of his own.

Everyone in Redimere hoped things would quiet down after the tragic summer of COLD HARD NEWS, but as fall fades into winter, the town is once again pulled into a deadly web of deceit and terror.

When Appalachian Trail thru-hiker Lydia Manzo becomes lost in the woods of Maine, then is found dead, it sets off a chain of events that upsets the fragile peace of Redimere, Maine. While state investigators are sure Lydia killed herself, some in Redimere are sure that she was murdered.

Could Lydia have been a victim of the dangerous fugitive who has been spotted near the trail? Or the legendary "Midnight Rambler," who some believe has been stalking and stealing from the region''s camps and towns for years?

As newspaper editor Bernadette "Bernie" O''Dea tries to sort out the truth, Police Chief Pete Novotny also disappears into the woods.

Maine''s western mountains are a dark wilderness that become even more menacing as Bernie tries to discover what happened to Lydia and why Pete disappeared.