Echo (Harriet Foster #3)

Revenge is served ice-cold during a frigid Chicago winter in Clark’s entertaining latest procedural featuring detective Harriet Foster (after Fall). When Brice Collier, a senior at the exclusive Belverton College, dies in an apparent accident, Chicago coroner Olivia Grant links his death to the decades-old murder of Belverton scholarship student Michael James Paget. Though Brice’s father, Sebastian, was implicated in Paget’s death—the two were classmates at Belverton—the Collier family’s copious connections got him off the hook. Now, following up on Olivia’s hunch, Foster and her colleagues learn that an anonymous vigilante crew calling itself “Justice” has formed at Belverton to avenge Paget. Foster and her team set out to unmask its members and determine if they’re affiliated with the college’s mysterious and exclusive Minotaur Society. Meanwhile, Foster receives threatening messages from someone calling themselves “The Voice,” who implies they know how Foster’s former partner really died and threatens her family. Though Clark doesn’t break much new ground, she conjures an evocative wintry atmosphere, and Foster remains an appealingly tenacious heroine. There’s enough here to satisfy series fans. Agent: Evan Marshall, Evan Marshall Agency. (Dec.)