A Chilling Goodbye

by Jean Sheldon

A Chilling Goodbye by Jean Sheldon is the third title in the Chicago Police Detective Kerry Grant Series. The gutsy crime fighter is a cop and a computer guru, ready to chase criminals on land or online.
Grant finds a body in the dumpster behind her apartment, apparently frozen by the sub-zero temperatures in Chicago. She soon discovers that the body, frozen over ten years earlier, is one of several moved from a cryonic chamber to trash bins around the city. Along with her partner, Mike Sullivan, Kerry tries to discover why someone removed the bodies, and if any laws had been broken. When they find the owner of the lab stuffed in an empty cylinder, they have the answer to one question.
The bizarre case baffles the detectives until a clue points to a local ice cream factory, where they interview employees who are in anything but good humor.

Mass Market Paperback

Published January 1, 2008

About the author

Jean Sheldon, born and raised in Chicago, spent the first half of her life as a fine and graphic artist. In 2004 she began another creative endeavor—writing mysteries. Her historical mystery The Woman in the Wing features women pilots (WASP) and factory workers (Rosie the Riveter) during WWII. Seven Cities of Greed involves a group of women of a 'certain age' on a quest for adventure and the mythical 'Seven Cities of Gold' in New Mexico, Jean's home for over twenty years. Mrs. Quigley's Kidnapping introduces Mattie Draper, a female detective in Chicago circa 1968, and Flowers for Her Grave is an old-fashioned whodunit in which two amateur sleuths in their early sixties, a gossip columnist and a gardener, solve a 20-year-old crime. The mystery An Uncluttered Palette is filled with art history, oil painting, forgery, and fun! She Overheard Murder, introduced the characters of the 'Nic & Nora Mystery' series—mysteries solved by lesbian amateur detectives in post-World War II Chicago. The second book of the Nic & Nora series, Puzzled by the Clues, follows both the blossoming relationship of Nic and Nora and that of Anna and Allen. Characters at the heart of the Owen gang and those on the perimeter, offer humor, wisdom, and the belief that there is always hope.

In 2015, Jean returned to her first love, and published a collection of poetry called Persistent.