Awards
2003 Edgar Award for Best Novel
Synopses & Reviews
"To read S.J. Rozan is to experience the kind of pure pleasure only a master can deliver."
--Dennis Lehane
EDGAR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
S.J. ROZAN
WINTER AND NIGHT
"S.J. ROZAN IS ONE OF THE FINEST WRITERS TODAY."
--Linda A. Fairstein, author of The Deadhouse
"A POWERFULL MOVING TALE."
--L A Times
"VERY WELL WRITTEN...COMPLEX, HARROWING."
--Boston Globe
"A TENSE THRILLER."
--Washington Post
"COMPELLING."
--Library Journal
"A SOPHISTICATED STORY THAT WILL STAY WITH YOU LONG AFTER THE BOOK HAS ENDED."
--South Florida Sun-Sentinel
WINTER AND NIGHT
BACK COVER
"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
"[O]ne of the very best private-eye duos in the genre...[a] highly readable and most entertaining series....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)
Review
"[Rozan's] masterly take on one of the genre's classic tropes the sins of the fathers waiting to bear poisonous fruit for their children is worthy of that trope's own spiritual father, Ross Macdonald." Kirkus Reviews
Review
"Despite the hype...[Winter and Night] isn't quite up to [Rozan's] usual high standard....[A] disturbing, suspenseful, but often shrill and repetitive novel..." Publishers Weekly
Review
"Winter and Night did not attract as much attention as Gus Van Sant's Columbine film Elephant, but where the Van Sant film has the cooled-out voyeurism of the hippest art installation, Rozan's has the vital instincts of good, solid muckraking....Rozan gets at the rot of suburbia in Winter and Night, but unlike nearly all the filmmakers and novelists who have addressed that subject from a superior height, Rozan isn't afraid to get her hands dirty." Charles Taylor, Salon.com
Synopsis
Private detective Bill Smith receives a late-night phone call from the NYPD, who have just arrested his 15-year-old nephew, Gary. When Gary disappears, Bill and his partner, Lydia Chin, search for the teen and find a chilling crime that puts Gary's future and his life in jeopardy.
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...
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.
Synopsis
"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
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 living in New York City.