{"product_id":"9780312280031","title":"The Cold Blue Blood (Berger and Mitry Series #1)","description":"A SALT AND PEPPER CRIME-SOLVING DUO...\u003cp\u003eNew York film critic Mitch Berger has become a reclusive curmudgeon in his city apartment after his young wife's death. A cottage on Connecticut's Big Sister Island, an old-money WASP community, offers him hopes for a fresh start...even when eerie footsteps, a sinister handyman, and a knife-wielding, sleepwalking matron begin to remind him of a grade B horror flick. Nevertheless, actually \u003ci\u003efinding\u003c\/i\u003e a dead body is a shock... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lt. Desiree Mitry of the State Police is another.  Six-foot-one, with long dreadlocks and legs that reach to heaven, Des is-gorgeous. She is also a rescuer of feral cats, wary of relationships, and tops at catching killers. But when Mitch provides some help with the blue-blooded locals, the attraction between this unlikely couple is growing—and so is the danger—because Mitch is soon the man who knows too much...and the killer's next target. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Biography: David Handler, author of the Steward Hoag mystery series, won an Edgar Award for \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald\u003c\/i\u003e and was nominated for an Anthony Award for \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Died Laughing\u003c\/i\u003e. He also co-wrote the thriller \u003ci\u003eGideon\u003c\/i\u003e under a pen name. He lives in Connecticut.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048439398640,"sku":"9780312280031","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780312280031_p0.gif?v=1763676832","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780312280031","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}