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Snow Blind - P.J. Tracy |
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03/11/07 (180 review reads) |
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Advantages: Engaging and intriguing
Disadvantages: Maybe that it's too short..?
When I first read P.J. Tracy’s Want to Play a few years ago I decided that I really liked this mother/daughter writing duo. However, the next few books were to be quite disappointing and when Snow Blind was released I wasn’t too bothered about reading it. Still, I was browsing amazon one day and this book came up at a very reasonable price so I decided to give it another go.
Snow Blind is the fourth book in the series about the Monkeewrench team and the Minneapolis PD team Gino and Magozzi. Unlike the other books, focus is mainly on the two detectives rather than the four odd characters that make up Monkeewrench. It all starts during a snowman building contest in a park in Minneapolis which soon turns into something else as two of the snowmen prove to be made out of much more than just snow. The 2 dead bodies that are found inside the snowmen turn out to be Minneapolis police having died in a horrifying way. Gino and Magozzi struggle to find any reason for the terrible crime committed and things do not become any clearer as they get a call from Iris Rikker, a north Minnesota countryside sheriff who has woken up on her first day on the job only to be called out to a crime scene where a snowman has been built around a dead body. This is only the beginning of a case which seems to involve to many threads for anybody to ever be able to tie them together.
The storyline keeps moving forward and keeps you guessing all along. Who are the residents of Bitterroot to where all the clues eventually seem to lead? Are there any links between the bodies turning up inside snowmen in 3 different places in the state or are there copycats out there?
This book will have you guessing right until the very end. In spite of this it didn’t seem as if the idea was forced as it sometimes seems with a complex story like this. In the end everything ties up really nicely but you cannot possibly imagine how it will pan out until the very end.
The characters are all more or less odd but somehow they still seem very real and very human. I found myself hoping that all would work out for the new sheriff and maybe not work out so well for some of the other characters. Apart from this I also very much enjoyed the storytelling and language. It’s not Nobel Prize material I guess, but for what it is it works. There are a couple of events in the book which are truly terrifying, where the author truly managed to make me feel part of what was happening.
I was amazed at how much I enjoyed this book, I found it very difficult to put down at night and I couldn’t wait to find out what was happening next which is the mark of a great book to me!
I would recommend this book to anybody who enjoys crime fiction as to me it’s one of the best recent books in this genre. If you are interested in reading this you can pick up a paper back copy at amazon for an incredibly reasonable £3.49 so hurry before they run out!
Summary: An intriguing new installment in the Monkeewrench series
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