Publication Day: 1st October 2024
Published By: Bookouture
Her eyes snap open and she takes in the snow-covered forest around her.
She can’t remember how she got here, and a dark figure is running toward her. She doesn’t have time to scream before he’s upon her…
When Sheriff Jenna Alton and her deputy, David Kane, hear reports of a plane crashing into the mountains that surround Black Rock Falls, their hearts shatter. Their friend’s blonde-haired teenage daughter, Julie, was on that flight. They won’t sleep until they bring Julie home to her distraught family.
A blizzard closing in, Jenna pushes on with the search until, just beyond the snow-capped trees, she finds the plane. She falls to her knees at the sight of the lifeless bodies, still buckled into their seats. But one passenger is missing: Julie has vanished…
Racing into the remote forest, Jenna finds heavy footsteps around the crash site which are too big to be Julie’s. Someone was here before them. Following the prints, Jenna’s pulse races as she finds the bodies of three young women hanging from the tall pine trees, their limbs frozen, their faces lifted to the sky above.
When the victims are identified, Jenna notices that each girl had long blonde hair when they went missing, just like Julie. But when they were found in the forest, their hair had been cut, their looks changed forever.
Is a twisted killer preying on girls who he can manipulate before their death?
Could Julie be his next victim?
With snow piling up around them, Jenna doesn’t have long to find Julie alive.
Can she track down this monster before he takes his next innocent life?
MY REVIEW
This book has so much going on and I loved it! Yes, we have a missing girl but that didn’t seem to be the main focal point, even the deaths of the others didn’t take the main focal point. For me, we focus on a potential new character to the fold, and to say it looks like it’s a green light, I did cheer! I worried I would be lulled into a false sense of security, that maybe, just maybe, this new character wouldn’t be a good one. But phew. It’s ok. I was ok, and I was happy!
When we weren’t focusing on the newbie, it was Jenna, Dave, and even Emily and Rio. This book felt different, it felt more of a filler to start something rather than a normal intense thriller. Not that it’s a bad thing at all, as it gave time for other characters to shine, to be at the forefront, but there was a different feel. A huge lull before the storm, before the birth of Jenna and Dave’s baby, and before Wolfe settles down. Before so many new things!
I do love this series, I have been here since the beginning and everyone has come so far. But Ms Hood, her writing has got so much stronger, she has developed this small town into a serial killer central, but she has created her own team of Super-Heroes who fight the bad guys, save the day and get a HEA most of the time. I love it!
As Ms Hood does with her characters and scene setting, drawing you into this false sense of security, it does make me worried for what might happen in the next book, I really am worried there is a HUGE storm a-coming especially after reading the blurb!
Until the next time xxx
Thank you so much to Noelle @ Bookouture for the tour invite and a copy of the book in return for my honest and unbiased review
About D.K. Hood
D.K. Hood is THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY and AMAZON bestselling author of the Detective Kane and Alton Series. Her spine chilling, fast-paced serial killer thrillers revolve around Sheriff Jenna Alton and her ex-special forces Deputy, Dave Kane. As the main characters fight crime, their secret pasts are never far away. Set in and around the fictional backwoods town of Black Rock Falls, Montana, known locally as Serial Killer Central, D.K.’s imagery takes the reader into the scenes with her. Given the title “Queen of Suspense” by her reviewers, D.K.’s writing style offers her readers a movie style, sizzling fast thrill ride.
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