Hallie Leland, a microbiologist at CDC and an experienced diver, spelunker and mountain climber is the obvious choice to replace a laboratory colleague who dies while doing important research at the South Pole. From the moment she steps off the transport plane onto the forbidding frozen continent Hallie realizes that survival is going to be a day to day battle. Since she’d arrived a day early there is no one to meet her, and she almost dies as she sets off across the ice toward distant lights. Luckily she is spotted and safely brought to the research facility, but her reception is no warmer than the sub-zero temperatures outside. The Polies, or the scientists and workers at the remote station, exhibit distant, trance-like behavior and many chose drugs and alcohol to combat the isolation and physical discomfort of their frozen prison. Within days of Hallie’s arrival, three woman die
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After a harrowing, premature and unconventional delivery Lindsay Boxer is now a mother, but the intrepid detective is unsure of her ability to carry out her new role with the same degree of success she enjoys as a crime fighter. She doesn’t have long to ponder the situation though when her maternity leave is cut very short by a series of murders. One of the murders, that of the girlfriend of a star 49ers players presents problems for Lindsay’s best friend, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Claire Washburn when the girl’s body disappears from the morgue. Not only must Lindsay try to find out who murdered the girl, she must find the body and vindicate her friend who is being charged with negligence. Lindsay’s partner, Rich Conklin has had his hands full
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