Book Title: Winter Frost (A Chris Matheson Cold Case Mystery Book 2) by Lauren Carr
Category: Adult fiction, 290 pages
Genre: Mystery, Crime Fiction, Police Procedural, Cozy
Publisher: Acorn Book Services
Release date: January 28, 2019
Tour dates: May 1 - June 28, 2019
Content Rating: PG (It's a murder mystery and there is mild violence. Very mild swearing no F-bombs. No on-stage sex scenes.)
Book Description:
It all started with a chance encounter in the city with Blair, his late wife.
Chris Matheson and the Geezer Squad, working under the guise of a book club, dig into the events surrounding his late wife’s supposed death halfway around the globe. A state department employee shoots himself in the back three times. A CIA operative goes missing. A woman is targeted by an international assassin three years after being declared dead in a terrorist attack overseas.
Nothing is as it seems.
In his most personal cold case, Chris fights to uncover why the state department told him that Blair, the mother of his children, had been killed when she was alive. What had she uncovered that has made her a target? Who terrified her so much that she had gone into hiding and why are they now after him?
Yet another Carr thriller package! Similar brilliance, engaging storyline, interesting characters, and of course, the style that has earned her good fans.
I had read the first book in the series, Ice, only recently, and fell in love with the smoothness of narration and the new set of characters. So this book felt like stepping into the next episode immediately after watching the first episode. Though I was not using the cover to decide if I'd go with reading the book, it still was a perfect fit, as usual, with not much data but still is fitting. The blurb is fantastic, short, and intriguing. It highlights and sets in place the important events that will fill the book.
As I would always say about Carr, she has the ability to write books that make the readers feel familiar with the characters, root for their favourites, and be impressed by how much can be unearthed. Having read the first book in this series only recently, reading this book felt like the continuation I was lucky to get immediately.
I have often read books with cold cases before, or at least relevance of current case with some older case. Police procedural thrillers often have this reference cases plot to increase the interest. But I have to say I love Carr's version of cold cases the best, hands down. The more personal they are, the better the effect for me, and be it with Faraday or Matheson, (her protagonists), this plot element makes readers love the corresponding impact the closeness will have during investigations, giving them the emotional angles behind cold cases.
It is only with Carr that pets would do some really sensible actions, infuse humour and show intelligence beyond expected in the plots. The book's Sterling is no exception. This book (without giving away spoilers) is as usual one with good twists, interesting language and keeps the readers turning the pages not just to rush through to the ending but to actually enjoy and imbine every word, seeing as they could not put down the book in between.
The blurb already kicks up the readers' interest, and only reading the book could tell you if the answers are satisfactory, and the explanations are fitting.
Yet another winner from Lauren Carr, undoubtedly.
Lauren Carr is the international best-selling author of the Mac Faraday, Lovers in Crime, and Thorny Rose Mysteries—over twenty titles across three fast-paced mystery series filled with twists and turns!
Now, Lauren has added one more hit series to her list with the Chris Matheson Cold Case Mysteries. Set in the quaint West Virginia town of Harpers Ferry, Ice introduces Chris Matheson, a retired FBI agent, who joins forces with other law enforcement retirees to heat up those cold cases that keep them up at night.
Book reviewers and readers alike rave about how Lauren Carr’s seamlessly crosses genres to include mystery, suspense, crime fiction, police procedurals, romance, and humor.
Lauren is a popular speaker who has made appearances at schools, youth groups, and on author panels at conventions. She lives with her husband, and three dogs on a mountain in Harpers Ferry, WV.
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