"The Lost Place" is the eighth book in a series of novels by Tess Gerritsen about police officers and doctors who fight against murderers. Something terrible has happened in the village of Better World... A snowstorm forces Maura Isles to linger in this terrible place. She came to a conference in Wyoming and, having met a classmate, agreed to go with him and his friends far out of town, to a ski lodge. Their car gets stuck in the snow, and the travelers are forced to seek refuge in a Better World... A few days later, Jane Rizzoli flies to Wyoming in search of her missing friend. And local authorities discover a burnt-out car with the remains of four people - one of them supposedly Maura... An intense narrative style, a masterful grasp of intrigue, brilliant knowledge of medicine and the psychology of criminals, faith in Good and the inevitable punishment of Evil - all this makes Tess Gerritsen a master of the modern medical thriller.