Lisa Towles

Book blurb...

Deputy Sheriff Gree Gooding has spent six months pretending her husband isn't dead. AJ's body was never recovered from the Beaufort Sea, and without proof, grief can be kept at arm's length. But when her boss, Sheriff Peter Barrett, vanishes from Jackson, Wyoming — and his wallet turns up four thousand miles north in Deadhorse, Alaska, beside an unidentified body — Gree can no longer outrun the one place she's been avoiding since AJ's final research trip.

What begins as a missing-person investigation into the most isolated oil camp on earth becomes a decades-long conspiracy. When Gree and her unlikely companion — a ranch hand she doesn't fully trust — discover the truth about what AJ found on his last trip, she understands for the first time why he never told her. He was trying to save her life. The Weight of Cold Things is a psychological thriller about what we hide from the people we love, what the dead leave us to carry, and the crimes that only the living can finish.