Brian Moreland’s suspenseful horror book “Dead of Winter” takes place in the 1878 Ontario wilderness. A horrific predator terrorizes colonists at a secluded fort, spreading a horrifying virus that turns its victims into hungry cannibals with an insatiable taste for human flesh. An enormous task awaits Inspector Tom Hatcher, who previously located Montreal’s notorious Cannery Cannibal.
Exorcist Father Xavier is battling a murderer in Montreal who is under the control of a shape-shifting demon in the meantime. The freezing woods become a lethal hunting ground as evil flourishes there as they solve a centuries-old mystery.