"Really great suspense!"

Ashley Marin's 15-year-old daughter, Lauren, has been kidnapped by the son of the man who kidnapped Ashley when she was a teenager. Ashley calls Chris Judge, retired policeman, to help find her daughter.

A man from her past, Chris is the one who rescued Ashley from her kidnapper when the local police and FBI had given up. When she calls Chris, he's just about ready to end his life, but he cannot ignore Ashley's plea. The kidnapper said to not call the police, but when Ashley's ex-husband, Robert, finds out, he wants the police and FBI involved. Ashley gets Robert to agree to give Chris a few days before they call in the authorities. Ashley and Chris start building a new relationship as they hunt for clues to where her daughter is being kept.

This story is really good! The beginning was a bit slow, but once I got into it, WOW, it took off and really kept me in suspense.

Reviewed by Delia Larkins
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted May 18, 2003

Read an Excerpt

IN THE COLD by Lynn Erickson is a rousing suspense with a wicked twist in the end. The fast-paced book finds the Aspen born heroine reliving a nightmare abduction she suffered 20 years before--and for the second time she must call on a stranger to save her, an ex-cop with a dark past and a terrible secret. As much as she yearns for him, her desire may be blinding her to the truth--he's going to get them all killed.

Summary

As a young girl, Ashley Marin was kidnapped and held for months in an abandoned mine, high in the Colorado Rockies. Now, twenty years later, she must relive her worst nightmare... Because her tormentor has been paroled. And Ashley's fifteen-year-old daughter, Lauren, is missing.

Chris Judge was there the night Ashley was rescued. That event changed his life and was the reason he became a police officer. Now, he's retired, divorced, and disillusioned, but he has never forgotten Ashley. And now, she needs his help more than ever. As they desperately search for her daughter, every step closer leads back to the past. And only one thing is certain...somewhere deep in the cold, the kidnapper is ready and waiting.