What is Peter Colt reading?

Featured at Writers Read: Peter Colt, author of Cold Island: A Novel.

His entry begins:

I just finished Mark Bowden's excellent Hue 1968. It is an excellent history of the Battle for Hue City during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. Bowden, a journalist, not a historian does a fantastic job of telling the history of what was one of, if not the bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War. The advantage that Bowden brings to the book is his having interviewed numerous people, Marines, soldiers, Vietcong, North Vietnamese Army soldiers, Vietnamese and American civilians who were all directly involved in the battle. In doing so he creates a very balanced and nuanced portrait of the battle. I have been reading books about the Vietnam war for the last thirty-five + years and this is...[read on]

About Cold Island, from the publisher:

When the remains of a young murder victim on Nantucket Island are discovered after thirty-five years, a detective begins to unearth the dark secrets of a community gone silent.

Massachusetts State Police detective Tommy Kelly is called to Nantucket Island, where a boy’s skeletal remains have been discovered at a construction site―interred for thirty-five years. The crime is especially gutting for Tommy, the father of two boys. It’s also the beginning of a grim mystery. Because no child during that period was even reported missing.

Tommy is partnered with Nantucket PD’s best detective, Jo Harris, who first chafes at the idea of a mainlander encroaching on her territory. And their work together is only raising more troubling questions. Then a possible link is found to the decades-old case of a serial killer―a vigilantly hidden part of the past that this tight-knit community would prefer to forget and never speak of again.

The secrets in their silence are so shocking they soon pull Tommy into a very dark place. Suddenly, offseason on Nantucket has never felt so cold, so isolating, or so dangerous.

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