The Snowstorm

By: Tríona Walsh

Narrated by: Jacqueline Milne

It’s an icy New Year’s Eve. Snow blankets a windswept Irish island as the wild Atlantic Ocean rages.

Six friends gather. It has been 10 years since the tragedy that tore them apart. A lot can change in a decade....

Childhood bonds are now lifelong secrets.

Dear friendships have twisted into deep jealousies.

A happy reunion is shattered by a dead body.

The celebrations have barely begun when one of the guests goes missing. As the snow thickens, the body is found.

Then the storm wreaks havoc on the island. Everyone is trapped–there is no way out. No electricity. No phone signal.

Nobody knows who to trust. No one is who they seem. Because one of them is a killer, and one will be dead next....

An utterly gripping thriller that will have you hooked until the final jaw-dropping, heart-racing twist. Fans of Catherine Cooper, Lucy Foley, and Ruth Ware will be glued to this unmissable locked-room mystery.

©2023 Tríona Walsh (P)2023 Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd.

Entertaining

This is an interesting and well written book.
However, I was expecting more of a mystery filled with creepy, claustrophobic/trapped in a snowstorm kind of experience than this story delivers.
This reads more like a police procedural and genre fiction kind of book but definitely not a suspenseful or spooky mystery.
I enjoyed it enough to finish it but there could have been a lot more character development and a greater sense of atmosphere.
It wasn’t scary or nail biting at any point and I found that disappointing.
Perhaps that’s down to my expectations, I just wanted something different and I definitely didn’t want a slow moving book about police work and drug dealers, it just didn’t do it for me in the end.
Worth a listen but I won’t be listening to it a second time.
The author has great potential. It’ll be interesting to see what her next effort looks like.
Hopefully it will be a bit more suspenseful and atmospheric.
The narration was good, no complaints there.

Winter Thriller

I absolutely love a good snowed in whodunit and this did not disappoint. I have read most, if not all, main stream locked in thrillers set in the winter, so when I was on the hunt for a lesser known one, I stumbled up on this. I am so glad I gave it a try even though it had very little reviews. The author did a great job developing characters and kept a great pace with the plot. This book had me guessing till the end. If you enjoy this genre as much as I do, you will not be disappointed!! The narrator did a phenemonal job with accents and different voices so there was never any confusion about which characters were speaking.