Cover of What the Cold Returns: a block of dark ice with a smooth pale pebble on top, standing on a frozen shore.

Book 3 of 3 · Bai Rong Harbin Mysteries

What the Cold Returns

Kept, not killed.

About this book

A pressure ridge heaves up the river ice, and a block rises with a young woman inside it. Bai Rong must go off the river she knows, onto ice she cannot read, for a living girl who no longer wants rescuing.

The publisher’s description of this book gives away how Book 2 ends. It opens after Book 2.

Open the companion after Book 2spoils Books 1–2

Where to get it

At a glance

Genre
Crime fiction, literary mystery
Mood
Atmospheric, haunting, wintry
Setting and era
Present day, China
Pace
Medium
Point of view
Third person
Reading order
Start at Book 1
Heat
Not applicable

Your companion

In this series

  1. Book 1What the Cold Keeps
  2. Book 2What the Cold Inherits
  3. Book 3You are hereWhat the Cold Returns

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