Millicent van der Hoeven has decided to sell her family\'s Adirondack estate to a nature conservancy.
In To Darkness and To Death , Julia Spencer-fleming continues her moving story of the way a small town, as well as a great city, can harbor evil, and the struggle of two honest people to deal with the ever-present threat of their feelings for one another.. . .
Something that won\'t be content with just one death---or two.
Something terrible waits in the ice-rimed mountains cradling Millers Kill.
As the hours tick by, Russ and Clare struggle to make sense of their town\'s plunge into chaos---and their own chaotic emotions.
What begins as a simple case of a woman lost in the woods leads to a tangle of revenge, blackmail, assault, kidnapping, and murder.
In Millers Kill, where everyone knows everyone and all are part of an interconnected web of blood or acquaintance, one person\'s troubles have a way of ensnaring others.
Her long-distance suitor from New York expects some answers about their relationship during his weekend in town.
Alban\'s Church ready for the bishop\'s annual visit.
The Reverend Clare Fergusson expects to spend the day getting St.
His wife needs to have the town\'s new luxury resort ready for its gala opening night.
Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne wants nothing more than a quiet day of hunting in the mountains on his fiftieth birthday.
And a young woman, one of three heirs to the 250,000-acre Great Camp, wakes alone in darkness, bound and gagged.
The owner of the town\'s last paper mill tosses in his bed.
Not far away, an unemployed logger sleeps off his bender from the night before.
In the small Adirondack town of Millers Kill, an old lumberman sits in the dark with his gun across his knees.
Saturday, November 14, 5:00 A.
M.
Reverend Clare Fergusson and police chief Russ Van Alstyne soon discover the secrets of someone who is desperate to stop the sale.
But on the day of the land transfer, Millie disappears.
Millicent van der Hoeven has decided to sell her family\'s Adirondack estate to a nature conservancy
