Book Review - The Killer in the Snow by Alex Pine

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Title: The Killer in the Snow

Author: Alex Pine

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Avon

Publication Date: 11th November 2021

Rating: 5 Stars

The first fall of snow can be fatal…

A year has passed since DI James Walker cracked his biggest case yet, and he’s hoping for peace and quiet this festive season.

But across the fells, a local farmer returns home on Christmas Eve to find footsteps in the fresh snow that lead down to his unused basement – and no footsteps leading away. Days later, his body is found, alongside those of his wife and daughter.

Without a neighbour for miles, there are no witnesses and little evidence. And the crime scene has strange echoes of another terrible murder committed at the farmhouse, twenty years earlier…

 

James knows that to catch this killer, he needs to solve a case that has long since gone cold…

Perfect for fans of smash-hit TV series Whitehouse Farm, Simon McCleave’s The Snowdonia Killings and Catherine Cooper’s The Chalet.

I don't think you could come up with a more intriguing crime scene if you tried.  There are so many elements to it, it's hard to know where to start.

Add in a very similar thing happened in the farm house over 20 years ago, and rumours the house could be haunted and it becomes more interesting still.

So I was hooked rather early on as to how DI James Walker and his team would unravel this. 

I think I half guessed briefly about one small aspect but without the details, and everything else kept taking me ab the police by surprise.

We get flashback scenes to key events in the past which helped give the reader more understanding to the situation.

Meanwhile DI James Walker's own nemesis is at large and still threatening him and his family. So there is that element to contend with too.

There is a lot to keep you on your toes, and I loved being drawn into this crime and seeing how it would turn out.

Another fabulously wintery crime novel from Alex Pine and I'm certainly keen to see what complex case he will come up next. 

Thank you to Avon and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.