So Cold The River

It starts with a beautiful woman and a challenge. Alyssa Bradford approaches filmmaker Eric Shaw to make a documentary about her father-in-law, Campbell Bradford, a 95-year-old billionaire whose past is cloaked in mystery, the only clues being the name of his hometown and an antique water bottle he's kept his entire life. Only a few hours after his arrival in Bradford's rural hometown, Eric experiences a frighteningly vivid vision. As the days pass, the frequency and intensity of his hallucinations increase.  He's drawn deeper into the town's dark past, which is centered on a glorious hotel where presidents and mobsters once mingled, drawn to the area by the curative powers of mineral springs. Eric discovers that something besides the hotel has been restored--a long-forgotten evil that will stop at nothing to regain a lost glory. Brilliantly imagined and terrifyingly real, So Cold The River is a tale of irresistible suspense.

Michael Koryta is the author of five previous novels, including Envy the Night, which won-áthe Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best mystery/thriller, and the Lincoln Perry series, which has earned nominations for the-áEdgar, Shamus,-áand Quill awards and won the Great Lakes Book Award.-áHis work has been translated into-ámore than a dozen languages.-áA former private investigator and newspaper reporter, Koryta lives in Bloomington, Indiana, and St. Petersburg, Florida.