Winter Chill

By: Joanne Fluke

Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch

The moment Marian Larsen sees the patrol car stop outside her house, she feels a shiver of foreboding. The news is even worse than she feared. Marian's husband and young daughter have been in a snowmobile crash. Dan is paralyzed and Laura is dead, her body broken on the icy ground...with a chilling secret. Friends and colleagues in Marian's Minnesota hometown rally around to try and ease her grief. But soon there are more horrible accidents. Then the rumors start - that these are not coincidences at all, that someone is picking off victims one by one. And as winter deepens, the search for answers will reveal a killer whose blood runs colder than the blinding snow....

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Good performance. Holds your attention.

The story line is a variation on one used many times. Even so, it is well written and the performance holds your attention throughout. The ending made listening worthwhile.

Slow

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The first half of this story is so slow, goes on and on. Was ready to stop listening but when the second half started it got somewhat better.

If you’ve listened to books by Joanne Fluke before, how does this one compare?

This story dragged to much.

Which character – as performed by Christopher Evan Welch – was your favorite?

Don't have a favorite.

Did Winter Chill inspire you to do anything?

Not at all.

Any additional comments?

Don't waste your time unless you want to be bored for the first 4 hours.

Quite a story

I haven't listened to any of this author's books before, but I certainly will order another one in the hopes that it will be as interesting as this one. I was a little concerned at the slow, long narrative arc in part 1 of the download. I felt it was a little slow and considering the novel was billed as a mystery, it was a little too long for the mystery and murders to get going. The character development is good, though, and that takes most of the first part. Then, the novel gets going big time in part 2. The ending is brilliant...so brilliant I caught my breath! Completely unexpected, by me anyway. This novel deserves a listen.

Good but…

I almost give up till the middle. The first half was all about how a mother feels when she’s lost a child. It may just be because I have lost two sons that I am sensitive about it. How long it went on was excessive. I started skipping chapters which is something I never do. Once it got to the point where the “meat” of the story was it was good. The narrator was very good for this story.

I thought this book would be a cozy mystery

I was expecting another, cozy mystery by Joanne Fluke-she is noted for writing such titles as the Devils Food Cake Mystery oh boy, was I wrong. Starting with the daughter is killed in a snowmobile accident and it just gets worse, I just kept listening thinking it would improve,it just got sad. I have to say if you are expecting that kind of mystery you would be so wrong.