When Christa joins a tour group heading deep into the snowy expanse of the Rocky Mountains, she’s hopeful this will be her chance to put the ghosts of her past to rest. But when a bitterly cold snowstorm sweeps the region, the small group is forced to take shelter in an abandoned hunting cabin. Despite the uncomfortably claustrophobic quarters and rapidly dropping temperature, Christa believes they’ll be safe as they wait out the storm.
She couldn’t be more wrong.
Deep in the night, their tour guide goes missing…only to be discovered the following morning, his severed head impaled on a tree outside the cabin. Terrified, and completely isolated by the storm, Christa finds herself trapped with eight total strangers. One of them kills for sport…and they’re far from finished. As the storm grows more dangerous and the number of survivors dwindles one by one, Christa must decide who she can trust before this frozen mountain becomes her tomb.
Buy Links
Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Google Play | Apple Books
What I thought about Dead of Winter
It's hot and humid where I am right now, so what better time to read a book set in a major snowstorm in the Rocky Mountains? Dead of Winter is an extraordinary suspense story that had me on the edge of my seat until the final pages.
Christa decides to go on a trip with her boyfriend Kiernan, thinking in the back of her mind that he might be the one. Their bus gets stuck on the way to the lodge and a storm is blowing in, and so begins the action in this very entertaining story.
The bus occupants are all stuck in a cabin in the woods when bad things start happening. And when I say bad, I mean brutally bad. Everyone is on edge. There is a lot they don't know, besides the fact that someone is killing them off, one by one. The story is told from Christa's point of view and she's a terrific character in this story. I was rooting for her all the way.
I'm not going to say anymore about plot details because I don't want to spoil anything in this story. I was riveted to the pages from start to finish. The author manages to make multiple trips out into the blinding snowstorm unique and interesting and I just had to keep reading to find out just who the killer was.
And was I surprised? I didn't see the ending coming, even though there were plenty of clues that are easy to see afterward. The story is intricately designed to show those clues to the reader in a way that kept me guessing for the entire book and I loved that.
I haven't read this author in the past, but I will definitely be looking for more titles from Darcy Coates. I really enjoyed this suspenseful story and my only complaint is that I wanted a few more pages at the end to wrap up a few items left hanging. But that is a small complaint next to a big recommendation for this title if you like a suspenseful whodunit. The stakes are very high and I thought Christa was awesome.
I really enjoyed this book and I definitely recommend it, especially if you like suspenseful serial killer stories.
About Darcy…
Darcy Coates is the USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen horror and suspense novels.
She lives in the Central Coast of Australia with her family, cat, and a collection of chickens. Her home is surrounded by rolling wilderness on all sides, and she wouldn’t have it any other way.
You can hear about her next book by joining her newsletter: www.darcycoates.com/updates
Follow on Twitter: @darcyauthor
No comments:
Post a Comment