Snowbound and Games

    Two mysteries by Bill Pronzini with the introductions

by Marcia Muller and Robert J. Randisi…

    

    SNOWBOUND…

    

    "A stinger and a beaut. Pronzini makes people and

events so real that you're living those explosive days of terror."

    -Robert Ludlum

    

    "A shivery, spine-tingling, it-could-happen suspense

story."

    -Publishers Weekly

    

    "Packed with adventure, fresh characterization and

minute-by-minute suspense."

    -Chicago Tribune

    

    When the Sacramento heist turns sour, the three gunmen

head for the Sierra Nevada mountains to the safe house they had set up for

themselves in the small village of Hidden Valley. There is a storm approaching

and the residents there are preparing for Christmas. None of them have any idea

of the killers in their midst. Rebecca Hughes is too busy dealing with her

faithless husband. John Tribucci and his wife Ann are getting ready for the

birth of their first child. And all Zachary Cain wants to do is drink himself

into forgetfulness over the death of his family. None of them are prepared for

three desperate men who decide to pull the ultimate heist-and hold an entire

town hostage!

    

    GAMES…

    

    "Pronzini is a kind of magician, only he builds his

illusions, casts his spells and creates his magic with words…the people are

real, the psychology is sound and the situation so inherently spellbinding that

readers will be swept effortlessly along by the narrative."

    -Seattle Post Intelligencer

    

    "Full of terrifying, spine-tingling

moments."

    -Tallahassee Democrat

    

    "Amoral; chilling."

    -Cleveland Plain Dealer

    

    Senator David Jackman needed to get away for the weekend,

and he had just the spot in mind-the family island, a secluded spot off the

coast of Maine. And he had just the person in mind to join him-his free-spirited

mistress, Tracy. But once they arrive, nothing seems right. All the guns are

missing from the house. They find a couple of dead animals, ritualistically

slaughtered. Then their boat is stolen. Soon, suspicion turns to terror as David

and Tracy are stalked by two deadly and possibly deranged adversaries. The Old

Man had always told David that life is a game, but if that is the case, this

could be the biggest game of all-and the final one!