The Snow Graves

THE SNOW GRAVES A TOTALLY ADDICTIVE AND UNPUTDOWNABLE MYSTERY THRILLER AND SUSPENSE NOVEL ROGER STELLJES BOOKS BY ROGER STELLJES Agent Tori Hunter Silenced Girls The Winter Girls The Hidden Girl Missing Angel The Snow Graves Available in Audio Agent Tori Hunter Silenced Girls (Available in the UK and the US) The Winter Girls (Available in the UK and the US) The Hidden Girl (Available in the UK and the US) Missing Angel (Available in the UK and the US) CONTENTS Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Hear More from Roger Books by Roger Stelljes A Letter from Roger Silenced Girls The Winter Girls The Hidden Girl Missing Angel Acknowledgments * To Roger and Mary. I don’t say it nearly often enough, but thank you for everything. My success is yours. PROLOGUE Wait here! Nico signed to his little sister Alisha. He tiptoed his way in his stocking feet to the top of the basement steps. In the reflection of the windowpanes of the French doors to the dining room, he saw the black-leather panted legs and combat ONE “WE SHOULDN’T BE HERE.” Three weeks earlier “You need to play ball here, Reardon,” Gresh pleaded. “Come on, man. This is serious. I was hoping inviting you here, we could work this out.” He looked nervously to Waltripp, Nico and Gill, all there to help convey