Stone and Snow — Sibella Giorello

Secrets run deep. 

Raleigh Harmon has a seriously dysfunctional southern family, an encyclopedic knowledge of criminal codes, and a literally odd best friend named Drew Levinson.

But now, after surviving a terrifying experience, Raleigh's ready to relax and enjoy the Christmas season with her new boyfriend.

But her kind and smart classmate Sloane Stillman is suddenly found dead -- by suicide. Only Drew refuses to believe it. Drew says science can prove Sloane didn't kill herself. The harder Raleigh tries to show Drew the truth, the more she herself questions the facts -- and the people she once trusted.

Christmas swirls in like a snowstorm, and Drew spirals downward, burying Raleigh under mountains of evidence about Sloane's suicide. It threatens to destroy everything, including Raleigh's new relationship with her boyfriend.
Desperate to put the pieces back together, Raleigh digs for answers, trying to uncover what really happened on that cold, silent night when Sloane Stillman lost her life.

Stone and Snow is the second book in the Raleigh Harmon mystery series introducing the girl who will become an FBI agent and forensic geologist -- provided she survives her high school years.

Praise for the Raleigh Harmon series:
“Read her for her wonderfully descriptive prose, her killer plots or her well-drawn characters, but read her. You'll come away enriched in deep and plentiful ways.” -- The Richmond Times-Dispatch