The Bitter Season

De: Tami Hoag

Narrado por: David Colacci

#1 New York Times Bestselling author Tami Hoag returns to the bestselling series of her career with a Kovac and Liska case that will delight fans and new listeners alike.

A murder from the past. A murder from the present. And a life that was never meant to be....

As the dreary, bitter weather of late fall descends on Minneapolis, Detective Nikki Liska is restless. After moving to the cold case squad in order to spend more time with her sons, she misses the rush of pulling an all-nighter, the sense of urgency of hunting a murderer on the loose. Most of all she misses her old partner, Sam Kovac. Sam is having an even harder time adjusting to Nikki's absence, saddled with a green new partner younger than pieces of Sam's wardrobe. Sam is distracted from his troubles by an especially brutal double homicide: a middle-aged husband and wife bludgeoned and hacked to death in their home with a ceremonial Japanese samurai sword. Nikki's case, the unsolved murder of a family man, community leader, and decorated sex crimes detective for the Minneapolis PD, is less of a distraction: twenty years later, there is little hope for finding the killer who got away.

On the other end of the spectrum, Minneapolis resident Evi Burke has a life she only dreamed of as a kid in and out of foster homes: a beautiful home, a family, people who love her, a fulfilling job. Little does she know that a danger from her past is stalking her perfect present. A danger powerful enough to pull in both Kovac and Liska and destroy the perfect life she was never meant to have.

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Wow!

I didn't see that ending coming. But you'll needed to read it to see what I'm talking about. Riveting!!

twists and turns

I love Tami Hoag's books and this series. it kept me on my toes guessing who the suspect was.

Best Tami Hoag

She was able to interweave two amazing plots. Can't wait for the next one

Good story, excellent performance

Tami Hoag doesn't disappoint. I love Tinks and Kojak! They are my favorite of all her characters.

My only statement of criticism to an otherwise solid story, and perhaps I'm being overly pedantic here, is the glaring mistake that Glocks do not have a safety. I mean, jeez, *that's* what they are famous for for Heaven's sake! How can't the editors have caught that?

Know your audience, many of which are gun owners, editors!!! C'mon! Accuracy and authenticity are what readers value most in these types of stories and this very glaring error stands out like a sore thumb at just the wrong point in the story.

Good read

liked this 9ne. The plot twists were interesting. liked the ending. I would recommend

such a great book

This one had me guessing until the end. I thought I had figured it out but the twist and turns I did not expect! Such a great book I look forward to the next in the series!

Even if cases dovetail, prefer Liska & Kovac pair

Liska is working a cold case (that a guy who worked on it 25 years insisted be in the cold case pile & wanted to work on it HIMSELF some more). He's an utterly chauvinistic nasty-mouthed pig. Kovac has a double murder by a samurai. The two cases end up related - go figure. I prefer Liska with Kovac. It was good but I was really aggravated with Evie. She has her perfect life but a lot of pain could have been avoided if she didn't try to hide the past. OK, she didn't want to open Pandora's box, but when she started getting threats and when Liska told her they were NOT related to a case from her job, she should have had a clue. For somebody who lived on the street, she sure lacked smarts and was very annoying... She was SOOOOO grateful for her perfect life that she never thought she would have or could deserve and afraid of losing it. What a sad sack! Her husband is a saint.

On point. As usual Tami!

Keep them coming! I love these books... And as someone from Wisconsin, the narration is pretty much on point... so get over it people

Pretty good

A bit slow, and didn't pull Mr in as her other books have but was his all in all. Quite the twist too....

Good story with interesting twists

Hoag never disappoints. This book has rich, fleshed out characters and an interesting plot with twists and turns you don't see coming.

Even the minor characters have backgrounds that enhance the story.

David Colacci narrates the emotions and tempo of the story nicely, but I didn't feel he represented the female voice very well. They tended to sound more silly than serious; especially the lead female character.

I enjoyed the book and recommend it to all Hoag fans and lovers of good detective and mystery genre fans.