Death in Winter is a Star Trek: The Next Generation novel, written by Michael Jan Friedman, published in hardcover in September 2005.

[1] The plot concerns an attempt to stop a plague on a Romulan colony called Kevratas, and the relationship between Picard and Dr. Beverly Crusher.

It also describes Dr. Crusher's first encounter of a similar plague as a teenager on the colony of Arvada III.

This book also includes characters Doctor Carter Greyhorse, a scientist whose past has landed him in a penal colony, along with Pug Joseph, a former member of Starfleet turned merchant, both of whom served with Picard aboard the USS Stargazer.

Lyons criticized the prose, characterization, story, and the lack of focus on the crew of the Enterprise.