Rizzoli & Isles 8-Book Set

a little house in Chelsea.
    Toward my daughter.

A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
    I owe a huge debt of thanks to Dr. Jonathan Elias of the Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium, and to Joann Potter of the Vassar College Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, for allowing me to share in the excitement of Shep-en-Min’s CT scan. Many thanks as well to Linda Marrow for her brilliant editorial suggestions, to Selina Walker for her keen insights, and to my tireless literary agent, Meg Ruley of the Jane Rotrosen Agency.

    Most of all, I thank my husband, Jacob. For everything.



 
    ICE COLD
By Tess Gerritsen
    Bonus Content
    Rizzoli & Isles, In Their Own Words
Who are Jane Rizzoli and Dr. Maura Isles? Find out from the characters themselves in
these exclusive essays written by Tess Gerritsen
    Visit the author online at
www.tessgerritsen.com

Ice Cold
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
    Copyright © 2010 by Tess Gerritsen
    Excerpt from
The Silent Girl
copyright © 2011 by Tess Gerritsen
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The Silent Girl
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Ice cold: a Rizzoli & Isles novel / Tess Gerritsen.
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1. Rizzoli, Jane, Detective (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Isles, Maura (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 3. Policewomen—Fiction. 4. Medical examiners (Law)—Fiction. 5. Abandoned houses—Fiction. 6. Women forensic pathologists—Crimes against—Fiction. 7. Winter storms—Fiction. 8. Wyoming—Fiction. I. Title.
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To Jack R. Winans

Kearny High School, San Diego

The lessons you taught me will last a lifetime
.

PLAIN OF ANGELS, IDAHO
    S HE WAS THE CHOSEN ONE .
    For months, he had been studying the girl, ever since she and her family had moved into the compound. Her father was George Sheldon, a mediocre carpenter who worked with the construction crew. Her mother, a bland and forgettable woman, was assigned to the communal bakery. Both had been unemployed and desperate when they’d first wandered into his church in Idaho Falls, seeking solace and salvation. Jeremiah had looked into their eyes, and he saw what he needed to see: lost souls in search of an anchor, any anchor.
    They had been ripe for the harvest.
    Now the Sheldons and their daughter, Katie, lived in Cottage C, in the newly built Calvary cluster. Every Sabbath, they sat in their assigned pew in the fourteenth row. In their front yard they’d planted hollyhocks and sunflowers, the same cheery plants that adorned allthe other front gardens. In so many ways, they blended in with the other sixty-four families in The Gathering, families who labored together, worshiped together, and, every Sabbath evening, broke bread together.
    But in one important way, the Sheldons were unique. They had an extraordinarily beautiful daughter. The daughter whom he could not stop staring at.
    From his window, Jeremiah could see her in the school yard. It was noon recess, and students milled about outside, enjoying the warm September day, the boys in their white shirts and black pants, the girls in their long pastel dresses. They all looked healthy and sun-kissed, as children ought to look. Even among those swan-like girls, Katie Sheldon stood out, with her irrepressible curls and her bell-like laughter. How quickly girls change, he thought. In a single year, she had transformed from a child into a willowy young woman. Her bright eyes, gleaming hair, and rosy cheeks were all signs of fertility.
    She stood among a trio