{"product_id":"frozen-arcana-9781775034056","title":"Frozen Arcana: The Assiniboine Deception","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinnipeg, 1940. The river is frozen solid. The truth is buried deeper.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of James Patterson, Robert Ludlum, and Greg Iles, Young delivers a relentless thriller where the only thing more lethal than the prairie winter is a secret hiding in plain sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew Year's Eve, 1939. As a wind shrieks down Portage Avenue, the city's elite celebrate the end of a decade inside the warm, gilded mansions of Armstrong Point. But outside, on the frozen ice of the Assiniboine River, the party is over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA high-profile corporate lawyer is found dead beneath the Maryland Bridge. It looks like a robbery gone wrong, until Detective Constable Gabriel O'Malley finds the killer's calling card tucked into the victim's pocket: The Fool, a card from an antique Tarot deck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cards are being dealt. The game is rigged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO'Malley is an outcast in his own department-labeled a \"War Baby\" for not enlisting, he fights a lonely battle on the home front. When a second body appears in a railyard boxcar, pinned with another card-The Tower-O'Malley realizes he is hunting a killer who sees murder as a ritual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo break the code, he must turn to the one person the law ignores: Olena Petrenko, a North End \"witch\" who claims the cards aren't just paper, but a map of a coming catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Magician holds the key.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe trail leads O'Malley to the doorstep of Elias Vance, a wealthy American industrialist who has arrived in Winnipeg with unlimited cash and a mysterious construction project deep beneath his fortress-like home. Vance claims he is building a bomb shelter for the coming war, but O'Malley suspects the tunnel is meant for something-or someone-far more dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the temperature drops to thirty below, O'Malley and Petrenko must race to stop a grand design that threatens to turn the city into a sanctuary for a darkness no one sees coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a city of ice, silence is the only witness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1775034054\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781775034056\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sidestreet Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d","brand":"WR Book House","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49171437060351,"sku":"9781775034056","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/frozen-arcana-9781775034056","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}