Paula Gosling  
The Dead of Winter A Blackwater Bay Mystery pbk out 6th Feb 
About the Author 
Bibliography 

The Dead of Winter  
A Blackwater Bay Mystery. When a fish-nibbled corpse floats up into a fisherman's ice hole in the frozen wastes of Blackwater Bay one morning, the shock is enough to shake Jess Gibbons out of an idle reverie on the gloomy state of her life. And a soon as Sheriff Matt Gabriel's team confirm the floater to be a mob-connected New York ex-con who could have been in the area to carry out a hit, Blackwater's quiet streets threaten to be submerged by a ravenous media circus. 
Then a second puzzle emerges: a girl from the local high school, and one of Jess's pupils, inexplicably goes missing. And the community prepares for its annual Ice Festival, speculation abounds as Matt and Jess seek to solve the burning questions of the hour. Are the two cases connected? Was the girl's recent caution for drug use a factor? And will Jess sort her life out in time for the wife-sliding competition? 
Praise for Paula Gosling: 
"Gosling plots fiendishly and writes angelically" Sunday Times 
‘Ingenious plotting... procedural detail to rival Ed McBain and a slam-bang solution’ Literary Review 
‘As if Garrison Keillor was meeting Miss Marple for the first time’ Evening Standard

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 
Paula Gosling was born in Detroit and moved permanently to England in 1964. She worked as a copywriter and a freelance copy consultant before becoming a full-time writer in 1979. Since then she has published twelve novels, has won both the John Creasey and Gold Dagger Awards for the Crime Writers' Association, and has served as the Association's Chairman. When she isn't committing murders by typewriting, cooking, or reading, she can be found in her sewing studio, creating abstract embroideries and patchwork quilts. She has a wonderful husband, two beautiful daughters, two lovely cats, and a pet overdraft which she is grooming for Gold in the Banking Olympics. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY  

• A Running Duck (Macmillan, 1978)
• Zero Trap (Macmillan, 1979)
• Loser's Blues (Macmillan, 1980)
• Mind's Eye (as Ainslie Skinner) (Secker and Warburg, 1980)
• Woman In Red (Macmillan, 1983)
• Monkey-Puzzle (Macmillan, 1985) (Stryker)
• The Wychford Murders (Macmillan, 1986)
• Hoodwink (Macmillan, 1988)
• Backlash (Macmillan, 1989) (Stryker)
• Death Penalties (Scribners, 1991)
• The Body in Blackwater Bay (Scribners, 1992)
• A Few Dying Words (Little, Brown, 1993)
• Fair Game (Little, Brown, 1994)
• The Dead Of Winter (Little, Brown, 1995)  Warner pbk out 6th Feb 1997

 

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