Death Makes No Deals

Approaching Christmas, a winter blizzard glazes Chicago in Arctic snow. Among other residents, retired FBI poisons expert Tad Lindholm is a haunted man. Haunted by his past, haunted by his recently dead lover Yvette, haunted by bottomless depression, drowning in booze and tempted by an arsenal of deadly doses. At the same time he is trapped by suspicions that he alone is responsible for killing Yvette and her former lover. Numb with stubbornness, encircled by intersecting mysteries, Lindholm pursues the real killers among his enemies, only to discover an unimaginably personal betrayal.