Frozen Arcana: The Assiniboine Deception

Winnipeg, 1940. The river is frozen solid. The truth is buried deeper.
In 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.
New 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.
A 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.
The cards are being dealt. The game is rigged.
O’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.
To 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.
The Magician holds the key.
The 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.
As 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.
In a city of ice, silence is the only witness.