SNOW KILL

Summoned by a routine call to the side of wounded hunter Joseph Rodriguez, New Hampshire EMT Chad Duquette removes a 9mm pistol, not exactly a hunter’s weapon, from the wounded man’s hand minutes before Rodriguez’s buddy Glenn Chambers is shot dead from ambush. Taking the pistol is a mistake Chad will pay dearly for when the police, linking it to the shootings of three men tattooed with pentagrams, come after him for murder—in Eslick’s second novel (Tracked in the Whites, not reviewed).