The Gathering by C. J. Tudor in Paperback

Welcome to Deadhart, Alaska, where the population is just 673 and people are living in a state of fear. In this small town, a gruesome murder echoes a killing from twenty-five years ago. Outsider detective Barbara Atkins is called in to help the local sheriff, Jensen Tucker, in the investigation. But the townspeople are convinced they know the culprit: one of the vampyr colony members who reside in an isolated mining settlement deep in the mountains. As Barbara and Tucker dig deeper into the town's dark secrets, they discover that things are not what they seem. With the winter snows closing in and another teenager goes missing, time is running out to uncover the truth. Is there a cold-blooded killer on the loose, or is a monstrous terror lurking in the shadows? Critics are raving about C. J. Tudor's chilling take on the vampire genre, with one saying, "Tudor slays with this brilliantly imaginative twist. It's as if she has rein