Winter and Night: A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel

About this book

Private detective Bill Smith is hurtled headlong into the most provocative-and personal-case of his career when he receives a chilling late night telephone call from the NYPD who are holding his fifteen-year-old nephew Gary. But before he can find out whats going on Gary escapes Bills custody and disappears into the dark and unfamiliar streets... Bill and his partner Lydia Chin try to find the missing teen and uncover what it is that has led him so far from home. Their search takes them to Garys family in a small town in New Jersey where they discover that one of Garys classmates was murdered. Bill and Lydia delve into the crime-only to find it eerily similar to a decades-old murder-suicide... Now with his nephews future-and perhaps his very life-at stake Bill must unravel a long-buried crime and confront the darkness of his own past... Winter and Night is the winner of the 2003 Edgar Award for Best Novel.