Ways to Hide in Winter

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Deep in Pennsylvania’s Blue Ridge Mountains, a woman befriends a mysterious newcomer from Uzbekistan, setting in motion this suspenseful, atmospheric, politically charged debut.

After surviving a car crash that left her widowed at twenty-two, Kathleen has retreated to a remote corner of a state park, where she works flipping burgers for deer hunters and hikers—happy, she insists, to be left alone.

But when a stranger appears in the dead of winter—seemingly out of nowhere, kicking snow from his flimsy dress shoes—Kathleen is intrigued, despite herself. He says he’s a student visiting from Uzbekistan, and his worldliness fills her with curiosity about life beyond the valley. After a cautious friendship settles between them, the stranger confesses to a terrible crime in his home country, and Kathleen finds herself in the grip of a manhunt—and face-to-face with secrets of her own.

Steeped in the rugged beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains as America’s War on Terror rages in the background, Sarah St.Vincent’s Ways to Hide in Winter is a powerful story about violence and redemption, betrayal and empathy, and how we reconcile the unforgivable in those we love.

Critics Review

  • “[An] atmospheric suspense novel.”

    O, The Oprah Magazine

  • “The tightly plotted tale combines a story of regret with the war on terror.”

    South Florida Sun Sentinel

  • “A tautly plotted thriller cradled by a well of emotion.”

    Refinery29

  • “Fraught and unexpected, it rightly rebuts the cliché that world events don’t creep into secluded, sleepy places.”

    Criminal Element

  • “Written with…careful wording, rigorous research, and righteous fury.”

    Crime Reads

  • “Sensitive prose conveys both compassion and outrage in this impressive debut.”

    Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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