Book Review
A Killing Cold by Kate Alice Marshall
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Publication Date: February 4, 2025
Format: Hardcover - 304 pages
Kindle - 3.2 MB / 294 pages
Nook - 3 MB / 320 pages
Audible - 9 Hours 41 Minutes
ISBN: 978-1250343055
ASIN (Kindle): B0D12QMD6L
ASIN (Audible): B0D481YRV6
BNID: 978-1250343062
Genre: Thriller
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Disclaimer: I purchased a hardcover copy of the book via my subscription to Book Of The Month.
Book Description:
A woman invited to her wealthy fiancé’s family retreat realizes they are hiding a terrible secret—and that she’s been there before, by the bestselling author of What Lies in the Woods.
A whirlwind romance.
When Theodora Scott met Connor—wealthy, charming, and a member of the powerful Dalton family—she fell in love in an instant. Six months later, he’s brought her to Idlewood, his family’s isolated winter retreat, to win over his skeptical relatives.
Stay away from Connor Dalton.
Theo has tried to ignore the threatening messages on her phone, but she can’t ignore the footprints in the snow outside the cabin window or the strange sense of familiarity she has about this place. Then, in a disused cabin, Theo finds something impossible: a photo of herself as a child. A photo taken at Idlewood.
I’ve been here before.
Theo has almost no recollection of her earliest years, but now she begins to piece together the fragments of her memories. Someone here has a shocking secret that they will do anything to keep hidden, and Theo is in terrible danger. Because the Daltons do not lose, and discovering what happened at Idlewood may cost Theo everything.
My Book Review:
In A Killing Cold, author Kate Alice Marshall weaves a riveting psychological thriller that easily draws the reader into a dark storyline that follows a woman's visit to her fiancé's remote family mountain retreat. It was supposed to be a visit to meet his family, and to share their recent engagement, but it turns into something very traumatic and dangerous.
Set in Idlewood, the remote Dalton family mountain retreat, the reader follows along as Theodora (Theo) Scott and her fiancé Connor Dalton's two-week visit to his family retreat turns dangerous when someone doesn't want Theo there and is determined to make her leave.
Set in Idlewood, the remote Dalton family mountain retreat, the reader follows along as Theodora (Theo) Scott and her fiancé Connor Dalton's two-week visit to his family retreat turns dangerous when someone doesn't want Theo there and is determined to make her leave.
A Killing Cold is a complex and multi-layered tale of hidden family secrets, traumatic pasts, wealthy power and control. From the moment Theo and Connor arrive at the family retreat, Theo's attempt to win over Connor's family and gain their approval is met with suspicion over her troubled and secretive past. And if that isn't enough, she is receiving threatening texts to leave the retreat. While wandering the grounds, Theo comes across an unused cabin that slowly brings traumatic buried memories and reoccurring dreams of her childhood to the surface, somehow, she knows that the property is connected to her past. Theo is determined to find out how her past is connected to the Daltons, even though her digging into hidden family secrets ultimately puts her life in danger.
The story is rich in detail and vivid descriptions. It has intriguing and suspenseful twists and turns, and the author plays a clever cat-n-mouse game with the reader as she provides enough clues into Theo's vague past, and the surfacing of Dalton family secrets that keeps the reader guessing, and with no other option than to keep turning the pages to find out what happens next. The dark intensity of the storyline and the complexity of the intertwining connection between Theo and the Daltons' secret and hidden pasts, kept me thoroughly riveted, engrossed, and guessing as the pieces to the puzzle come together.
With a complex and realistic cast of characters, the author does a phenomenal job of delving into the tangled web of secrets, lies, betrayals, and a history of emotional past trauma. The author transports the reader into this fast-paced white-knuckle storyline with her creative interweaving of a psychological cat-n-mouse game between the characters that leaves the reader's heart palpitating until the surprise ending ultimately leaves them completely shocked. It just doesn't get any better than this!
A Killing Cold is one heck of an adrenaline rush that is a must-read for the true diehard psychological thriller junkie!
RATING: 4 STARS
About The Author
She lives outside of Seattle with her husband, two dogs named Vonnegut and Octavia, and two kids. They all conspire to keep her on her toes.
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