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Wolf Lake

John Verdon

2016375 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2016
first published
  • 2016Zion Natural History Association · 375 pages · ENGISBN 9781619028074
  • 2016378 pages · ENGISBN 9781619027336
  • 2017Counterpoint Press · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9781619029477
  • 2017Brilliance AudioISBN 9781522636526

"The former NYPD star homicide detective is called upon to solve a baffling puzzle: Four people who live in different parts of the country and who seem to have little in common, report having had 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--and the weapon used in each case was a wolf's head dagger. Police zero in quickly on Richard Hammond, a controversial psychologist who conducts hypnotherapy sessions at a spooky old Adirondack inn called Wolf Lake Lodge. It seems that each of the victims had gone there to meet with Hammond shortly before turning up dead. Troubled by odd holes in the official approach to the case, Gurney begins his own investigation--an action that puts him in the crosshairs of not only an icy murderer and the local police but the darkest corner of the federal government."--

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AtmosphereNoir

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Plot intensityEventful

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ThemesJustice
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