January 9
Upstate New York
Half a mile from the Canada border
Somewhere west of Lake Champlain
The explosive noise of the guns had set off a chain reaction, sheets of wet snow dropping from the limbs of the pine trees surrounding Luca Fisk. Even after the gunfire stopped, Fisk could hear limbs snapping, snow thudding to the earth, a circular cataract expanding, fading away from him like ripples in a frigid pond.
And then the endless forest... went silent. My God, thought Fisk. They're all dead.
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The Execution
Mystery / ThrillerA number of bodies are discovered on the United States' border with Mexico, each carved with a unique symbol; a hummingbird. Detective Layla Mackenzie- dubbed the Ice Queen among her colleagues at the Mexican intelligence agency because she's famous...
