Cold Mountain Karin Slaughter He discovers that his wife

He discovers that his wife has died and that his close friends have fallen in a war or moved away

Recovering from the tragedy of his wife's death

emotionally-honest prose

So when Eleanor is invited to spend a summer teaching in East Germany

It features Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla and Detective Chief Inspector Brock

Cold Mountain Karin Slaughter He discovers that his wifeA soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began. As Inman attempts to make his way across the mountains, through the devastated landscape of a soon to be defeated South, Ada struggles to make a living from the land her once wealthy father left when he died. Neither knows if the other is still alive.