Such a Winter's Day
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Juliet Reid wasn’t able to save her murdered brother almost ten years ago. Can she face her demons to stop an ice-cold killer in their tracks a decade later?
Nine and a half years ago, Juliet’s talented brother Fin should have returned home. He didn't. When Juliet set out to find him that snowy winter evening, she made a devastating discovery.
Now, Juliet returns to the small town of Parrish, Ohio to celebrate her twenty-fifth birthday with her parents. But when she arrives, she receives the shocking news that her father appears to have committed suicide. Why was he so distant shortly before his death? And why was he suddenly asking questions about Fin before his brutal murder?
As Juliet tries to come to terms with another family tragedy, she finds herself at the center of a series of spine-tingling events. What chilling secrets did her father uncover, and can she stop an ice-cold killer who's determined to keep them hidden?
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In the prologue of this so-so romance-tinged suspense novel from Thompson (Praying for Time), Owen and Sera Reid of Parrish, Ohio, are devastated by the murder of their 18-year-old son, Fin, an aspiring rock musician; someone slit Fin's throat and tied him to a tree, leaving the corpse for his 15-year-old sister, Juliet, to find. Nine years later, Juliet's world is rocked again when she learns that Wendell Booth, the developmentally delayed and violent neighbor who was convicted of Fin's murder, is now free after a juror came forward to confess that she accepted a bribe to vote guilty. That shock is followed by the news that Owen, a police deputy, apparently shot himself in the head in the tree house he built for Fin. Juliet and Sera don't buy the conclusion that Owen died by suicide, and soon afterward violence claims the life of someone else important to Juliet. She and a childhood friend, whom she hopes will be a love interest, investigate. Thompson keeps the reader guessing who's going to survive, but the whodunit plot doesn't compel, and Juliet's emotional reactions to repeated trauma fail to convince. Thriller fans can safely pass.
