Here is a new book in the Detective Jane Rizzoli and Medical Examiner Maura Isles series.16 years previously, a creepy man with homicidal tendencies named Prophet Jeremiah Goode, ran a religious community of people who call themselves The Gathering, in a village called Kingdom Come, in snowy Wyoming. What else went on in this pseudo-religious setting we have yet to discover.
Fast forward to present day, and Maura Isles is in the throes of ending an already dead relationship as she travels to attend a conference. There she meets Doug, an old friend, and over dinner he proposes Maura join him, his daughter Grace, and another couple, Arlo and Elaine, on a cross country ski trip for the day, before her return to Boston. She agrees, and they set off, but somewhere they take a wrong turn, and end up stranded on a deserted road, their car in a ditch. Forced to abandon the car, they walk through the falling snow to a village called Kingdom Come.
Their situation worsens as they trudge through the snow, there is no cell phone reception, and Maura silently berates herself for agreeing to come on this trip in the first place. In the village they find 2 rows of identical houses, all deserted. The beds neatly made up, the table laid with plates, food on the plates, now frozen, snow piling on the floor beneath open windows. Where are the people? They are well and truly stranded, and nobody knows where they are. Searching the houses, they find evidence of some sort of religious community. They also find dead pets, and bloodstains on the floor, and it is clear that something terrible happened in Kingdom Come.
Meanwhile, back in Boston, when Maura fails to return home, Detective Jane Rizzoli sets out to find her missing friend. After much back and forth, her search eventually leads her to Kingdom Come, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow...
This was definitely the scariest book I have read from this author, and it was so gripping I stayed up half the night to find out what happens.
Happy reading!
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