Sign-In
Cart
The Last Frost
Paperback
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The thaw reveals what winter was meant to keep buried.
When a Nulhegan land steward discovers scattered human remains near the Canadian border, the evidence has already been damaged by animals, water, and years beneath the frozen ground. The county sees an unidentified body. Deputy U.S. Marshal Benjamin Walker sees a burial site beside a corridor once used to move contraband between Vermont and Quebec.
The remains may belong to Drew Belanger, a thirty-one-year-old Newport man who disappeared in November 2010. The old investigation reached a convenient conclusion: Drew owed money, crossed into Canada, and chose not to come home. His sister never believed it. Drew left behind his coat, his dog, an uncollected paycheck, and a frightened final call that the file treated as another excuse.
Walker has only days to establish a federal connection before his office pulls him back. The thaw is changing the scene by the hour. An older rust-colored pickup keeps appearing near the people he interviews. Records do not match the dates on the official reports. And every road Walker follows leads closer to an old trafficking network designed so that no single person can expose the whole.
To identify the dead man and learn why he was buried, Walker must navigate Nulhegan stewardship, county loyalties, federal task-force history, and the quiet resistance of people who decided long ago that the case was finished. Meanwhile, the fragile routine he is building with his daughter depends on the one thing his work has never allowed him to promise: that he will be there when she expects him.
The Last Frost is the second Benjamin Walker novel, a cold-case mystery and rural federal procedural set during Vermont's treacherous spring thaw. It can be read as a complete mystery, with Walker's family story continuing from The Last Lap.
If you like the atmospheric crime fiction of William Kent Krueger, the rural suspense of C.J. Box, and the sharp, character-driven mysteries of Craig Johnson, you'll enjoy The Last Frost.
Return to the Northeast Kingdom, where the cold preserves more than evidence, and every thaw comes with a cost.
Also in
Mystery & Thriller
The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I: American Tabloid, the Cold Six Thousand; Introduction by Thomas Mallon
Ellroy, James
Hardcover
Coffin Road: An Utterly Gripping Crime Thriller from the Author of the China Thrillers
May, Peter
Paperback
Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Movie Tie-In Edition): Book 1 of the Millennium Trilogy
Larsson, Stieg
Paperback
The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover
Big Little Truths: Reese's Book Club: A Novel: The Sequel to Big Little Lies
Moriarty, Liane
Hardcover
The Pirate Queen: A Novel from the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Frozen River
Lawhon, Ariel
Hardcover