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Library Journal Review: Cold case, indeed: a blizzard with too many parallels to a long-ago storm shocks 33-year-old Abby Reynolds into unraveling the
mystery behind a 17-year-old homicide. The unidentified young woman found bloodied and naked in the snow has literally haunted the small Kansas town ever since, her unmarked grave emitting a miraculous glow.
The secret begins to peel away when Abby realizes that the stories told about that night don't quite ring true. As she asks the people she loves to return to
that time in 1987, Abby fears the murderer might be staring her in the face.
Pickard's careful plotting builds slowly toward a climax, with the weather contributing to a sense of foreboding. Using flashbacks and multiple viewpoints, she
provides an absorbing tale of love and deceit. This very readable standalone suspense novel, the first by popular mystery series author Pickard (Jenny Cain, Marie Lightfoot), will appeal to those who relished Martha Grimes's Hotel Paradise.
Recommended for all popular fiction collections. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 1/06.]— Teresa L. Jacobsen, Solano Cty. Lib., CA --Teresa L. Jacobsen
(Reviewed April 15, 2006) (Library Journal, vol 131, issue 6, p68) |
