Why we’re excited
Officer Tara Quayle vanishes from a small Vermont town, leaving her patrol car in deep woods just as a vicious cold snap sets in. Colter Shaw signs on to find her and discovers she may have chosen to disappear.
Deaver created Lincoln Rhyme of The Bone Collector, and his Colter Shaw books are the basis of the CBS series Tracker with Justin Hartley. This is the sixth Shaw novel; each stands alone, but The Never Game is the place to meet him properly.
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What to know about Freeze Frame
Freeze Frame is Book 6 in the Colter Shaw series. Start with Book 1, The Never Game. The book just before this one is South of Nowhere.
Fatal Intrusion is the one Jeffery Deaver book we have reviewed, at 4.5 out of 5.
From the publisher
The New York Times bestselling master of suspense returns to his beloved Colter Shaw series, adapted for TV (CBS's Tracker, starring Justin Hartley), as reward seeker Shaw races against the clock to search for a small town's beloved officer.
Officer Tara Quayle has gone missing. The only clue as to what happened? An abandoned police car in the middle of the deep woods near Knox Crossing, Vermont. Though the police department has conducted a thorough search, resources are limited, due to a breathtaking cold spell and an impending once-in-a-decade winter storm. And time is running out; it would be nearly impossible for anyone to survive very long in the extreme weather. Desperate to bring their colleague home alive, Quayle’s fellow officers enlist the help of reward seeker Colter Shaw.
But as Shaw digs down into Quayle’s recent whereabouts and her police department investigations, he learns of the town’s dark history. There’s more to Knox Crossing than meets the eye, and the same can be said for its inhabitants. But when Shaw finds himself a target of a harrowing shoot-out, the puzzle pieces begin to click. What if the policewoman’s disappearance wasn’t an accident? What if Quayle herself does not want to be found? Whatever the case may be, Shaw must act fast, as he finds that his life and Quayle’s are not the only ones in jeopardy.
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We haven’t read Freeze Frame yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
