Lori Duffy Foster

A historical suspense in the Adirondacks …

A playland for the wealthy, where long-buried crimes awaken danger, expose corruption and shatter lives.

Coming in March!

Spring Melt

As a doctor’s wife in a thriving Adirondack village in the 1920s, Ella Devine seems to have an ideal life. Her husband grew rich catering to New York City socialites who wanted to hide their TB diagnoses from their friends. Their marriage is devoid of emotion, but so is she, having learned long ago to quietly accept whatever life offers. But all that changes when three men are charged with a nineteen-year-old murder, and the long-buried crime that shaped Ella’s childhood is exposed.

SPRING MELT draws on the rich and fascinating history of the Adirondacks, where hikers who see only low hills and lush vegetation fail to perceive the hidden dangers and lose their lives by stepping two feet off the trail. Since the late 1800s, the wilderness that is the Adirondacks has been both a frontier to be conquered only by the hardiest of humans and a playland for the wealthy. When these two worlds collide, the resulting explosion can be fatal.

SPRING MELT is a gripping courtroom drama where every truth feels like a thin layer of ice—beautiful, fragile, and one step from cracking wide open. Lori Duffy Foster builds tension with the quiet inevitability of rising water, until everything breaks loose in the final verdict.

—Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

"SPRING MELT is a gripping courtroom drama where every truth feels like a thin layer of ice—beautiful, fragile, and one step from cracking wide open. Lori Duffy Foster builds tension with the quiet inevitability of rising water, until everything breaks loose in the final verdict." —Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

"SPRING MELT is life-affirming, presenting a protagonist who is given a second chance to experience and enjoy life. Foster writes with sensitivity and maturity. This is a thoughtful and nuanced story, encouraging the reader’s engagement with the issues it raises. It also presents us with an ethical question: Can murder be justified when the perpetrator has escaped justice himself? Lori Duffy Foster has excelled herself. I loved this book!" – Laraine Stephens, author of the Reggie da Costa Mysteries

Praise for SPRING MELT