Awards
2003 Edgar Award for Best Novel
Synopses & Reviews
"TERRIFIC." --
Washington Post
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 what's going on, Gary escapes Bill's custody and disappears into the dark and unfamiliar streets...
"WONDERFUL." --Robert Crais, author of Hostage
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 Gary's family in a small town in New Jersey, where they discover that one of Gary's classmates was murdered. Bill and Lydia delve into the crime-only to find it eerily similar to a decades-old murder-suicide...
"CHILLING." --Linda A. Fairstein, author of The Deadhouse
Now, with his nephew's future-and perhaps his very life-at stake, Bill must unravel a long-buried crime and confront the darkness of his own past...
"Rozan delivers strong characters, deft plotting, and a hard-driving narrative. Don't miss this one." --Booklist
Review
"Lydia Chin and Bill Smith remain one of the very best private-eye duos in the genre, and this installment of Rozan's highly readable and most entertaining series lives up to the superlatives we have heaped upon its predecessors.... As before, Rozan delivers strong characters, deft plotting, and a hard-driving narrative. We'll say it again: don't miss this one."--Booklist (Starred Review) "Disturbing, suspenseful."--Publishers Weekly "Rozans ... masterly take on one of the genres classic tropes—the sins of the fathers waiting to bear poisonous fruit for their children—is worthy of that tropes own spiritual father, Ross Macdonald."--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "With a strong, sure hand, S.J. Rozan tells a hard-hitting tale that rings with authenticity."--RT Book Reviews
Review
"Lydia Chin and Bill Smith remain one of the very best private-eye duos in the genre, and this installment of Rozan's highly readable and most entertaining series lives up to the superlatives we have heaped upon its predecessors.... As before, Rozan delivers strong characters, deft plotting, and a hard-driving narrative. We'll say it again: don't miss this one."--Booklist (Starred Review) "Disturbing, suspenseful."--Publishers Weekly "Rozans ... masterly take on one of the genres classic tropes—the sins of the fathers waiting to bear poisonous fruit for their children—is worthy of that tropes own spiritual father, Ross Macdonald."--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "With a strong, sure hand, S.J. Rozan tells a hard-hitting tale that rings with authenticity."--RT Book Reviews
Synopsis
From the award-winning author of "Reflecting the Sky" comes an explosive, breakout novel about the corrosive power of secrets and corruption in a small town.
Synopsis
From the critically acclaimed, award-winning S. J. Rozan comes her finest novel to date - an explosive novel about the corrosive power of secrets and corruption in a small town.
In the middle of the night, private investigator Bill Smith is awakened by a call from the NYPD. They're holding a 15-year-old kid named Gary -- a kid Bill knows. But before Bill can find out what is going on, Gary escapes Bill's custody into the dark night and unfamiliar streets. Bill, with the help of his partner Lydia Chin, tries to find the missing teen and uncover what it is that led him so far from home. Tracking Gary's family to a small town in New Jersey, Bill finds himself in a town where nothing matters but high school football, where the secrets of the past - both the town's and Bill's own - threaten to destroy the present. And if Bill is to have any chance of saving Gary and preventing a tragedy, he has to both 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.
Synopsis
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 what's going on, Gary escapes Bill's 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 Gary's family in a small town in New Jersey, where they discover that one of Gary's 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 nephew's 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.
About the Author
S. J. Rozan is the author of seven previous novels, most recently
Reflecting the Sky. She has won both the Shamus Award for Best Novel (for
Concourse) and the Anthony Award for Best Novel (for
No Colder Place) and was an Edgar Award finalist. Rozan is an architect, born and currently lives in New York City.