Shelby Lake · Book 1
The Deep, Deep Snow
- Published
- 1 January 2020
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9781094071329
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Deep, Deep Snow opens Brian Freeman's Shelby Lake series, a psychological thriller published in 2020 at 368 pages that won a Minnesota Book Award and was an Edgar Award finalist. It follows small-town Wisconsin sheriff's deputy Shelby Lake -- abandoned as a newborn in a snowbank and saved by a passing stranger -- searching for a missing boy while confronting long-buried town secrets, and is followed by the prequel The Ursulina.
Its place in Shelby Lake
The Deep, Deep Snow is book 1 in the Shelby Lake series. It is followed by The Ursulina. See the full Shelby Lake reading order.
Shelby Lake is a small-town Wisconsin sheriff's deputy with an origin as dramatic as anything in her caseload: she was abandoned as a newborn in a snowbank and saved by a stranger who happened to be passing. Brian Freeman's two-book series leans into rural noir — isolated communities, buried secrets, and cold-weather atmosphere reminiscent of his Jonathan Stride books, but with a female lead and a folk-horror edge. The Deep, Deep Snow (2020) has Shelby searching for a missing boy while confronting long-buried…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781094071329
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781713523215
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9798200724215