Synopsis of Rattlesnake Island: a Novel
Hi all! I was asked about my thriller novel, "Rattlesnake Island." It will be published this winter. Here is the dust jacket synopsis:
Russian American police officer, Vanya Petrova, faces a conundrum: a ruthless killer has taken hostage the peaceful communities surrounding Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. And now he sets his deadly sights on her.
Officer Petrova stands on the beach of an island, investigating the unthinkable: a second double homicide in paradise. Someone is killing on her lake and the note in her hand indicates it’s because of her. She wonders if the killer is the same person who is deadest on settling a grudge with her and her mother that began decades ago across the globe, deep in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Tajikistan and Afghanistan. And over the next six days this madman’s goal is to shove Vanya into the abyss of insanity; or maybe even further. His ultimate plan to derail her life includes performing an act so heinous it may change the course of history.
To his dismay, Vanya shoves back. She fights for her community and friends, for the twin Russian babies she is about to adopt, and for her husband—a former Navy fighter pilot returned home from the war and a brutal captivity, a shell of himself. She then fights for her very life in a desperate attempt to thwart an incipient mass casualty attack larger than the world has yet to witness.
Welcome to paradise lost. Welcome to Vanya's nightmare.
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