Dead of Winter
by Darcy Coates
Publication date: July 11, 2023
Genres: Horror, Mystery Thriller
Source: Netgalley
From bestselling author Darcy Coates comes Dead of Winter, a remote cabin in the snowy wilderness thriller that will teach you to trust no one. There are eight strangers. One killer. Nowhere left to run.
When Christa joins a tour group heading deep into the snowy expanse of the Rocky Mountains, she’s hopeful this will be her chance to put the ghosts of her past to rest. But when a bitterly cold snowstorm sweeps the region, the small group is forced to take shelter in an abandoned hunting cabin. Despite the uncomfortably claustrophobic quarters and rapidly dropping temperature, Christa believes they’ll be safe as they wait out the storm.
She couldn’t be more wrong.
Deep in the night, their tour guide goes missing…only to be discovered the following morning, his severed head impaled on a tree outside the cabin. Terrified, and completely isolated by the storm, Christa finds herself trapped with eight total strangers. One of them kills for sport…and they’re far from finished. As the storm grows more dangerous and the number of survivors dwindles one by one, Christa must decide who she can trust before this frozen mountain becomes her tomb.
*ARC provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. *
First of all I want to say thank you to Netgalley and the publisher, Poisoned Press Pen to give me the opportunity to read this book. I have read a few books by Coates and I loved all her books. I am giving this book 3 hearts because it was not fast enough for my tastes.
This was also not one of the books I am used to read from Coates. I mean I think all the books that I have read from her was all to do about ghosts and hauntings and this one was not. I am not saying that I only love ghost/ hauntings from Coates because I do read other horror and Thrillers.
Christa (the main character) went with her boyfriend to a lodge in the Rocky Mountains for a getaway but it was not the fun and relaxing getaway she expected. It was dangerous and the snowstorm did not help matters either. The small tour group that she travelled with where slowly being murdered one by one and no one knew who the killer was. I liked that I could not guess who the killer was up until the end of the book. Coates kept me wondering who the murderer was. The only one who I did not suspect was Christa but all the others was fair game until they became a victim themselves. Christa kept thinking that none will get out alive and in away she is right.
The ending felt to abrupt for me. I mean you don’t actually know what happened after Christa found out who the killer and after she stopped them. I mean did the police find her?? Did she move on with what happened or did she even get down from the snowy mountain alive. It feels like the story isn’t done for me. I enjoyed the twists and turn of this story and Coates did a wonderful job describing the dangers of a snowstorm.
This was a nice read and I will always look for more books to read from Coates!! She is my go to author when I am in the mood for some horror.
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