{"product_id":"2940183101720","title":"What the Cold Keeps: A Cold Case Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe cold keeps what the records forgot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eFive months after reopening a long-buried disappearance in Black Spruce Crossing, federal investigator Nia Carter is handed a worn blue notebook by community safety officer Eli Redbird.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe notebook belonged to Agnes Swifthawk, a former health aide at the reserve clinic. For years, Agnes quietly wrote down the names of men from the community who died too young — cardiac events, strokes, workplace accidents, causes that looked ordinary when seen one at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut Agnes saw the pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eEleven men. Similar ages. Similar histories. One recurring phrase in the margins:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003enorth site.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs Nia and Eli begin tracing the names through old clinic notes, employment records, family memories, provincial files, and forgotten environmental reports, the investigation leads them to an abandoned worksite deep in the northern forest. Four concrete foundations sit beneath the snow. The wrong kind of scrub grows where healthy trees should be. And the records reveal what the men were never told: the site handled dangerous industrial solvents and chemical compounds that should have required serious protection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe deeper Nia digs, the clearer the shape becomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eA doctor wrote a referral that was logged but never followed. A regional health authority drafted the right questions and never sent them. A remediation report found contamination and was closed without the necessary follow-up. A safety memo warned that workers were handling solvents without respirators — and no one came.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eNo single file tells the whole story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eTogether, they expose a chain of silence that lasted decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs Nia builds the referral that may finally give the families an official record, Eli must face the personal cost of the investigation when one of the names on the list belongs to his own family. What began as a forgotten notebook becomes a reckoning with memory, grief, institutional failure, and the question of what justice can mean when the truth arrives too late to save anyone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackthorn Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48517604016369,"sku":"2940183101720","price":1.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940183101720_p0.jpg?v=1786174675","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940183101720","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}