Blurb: Christmas has arrived in Cumbria, and wedding bells are ringing.
But an ice-cold killer is waiting in the fells…
As the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, DI James Walker receives a phone call that puts paid to his Christmas break. During the wedding of the year at a lakeside hotel, the bride's sister has vanished.
When Rachel left the wedding breakfast before her speech, newly-wed Libby was furious. But as the night went on with no sign of her maid-of-honour, Libby started to realise something was very, very wrong…
Before the wedding night is out, the lake is being searched for a body.
Something old, something new. One guest is a killer. The question is: who?
Review: Following listening to The Killer In The Snow I almost instantly downloaded The Winter Killer. DI James Walker is back and this time his wife Annie is back with a baby girl. Christmas swings by without a murder, this time it's New Years Eve when DI James Walker takes a call that will mean he won't see in the New Year peacefully with his wife and daughter. His colleague Abbott is away at a wedding and when she calls he knows it's not good news. This was an interesting story as we had a policewoman and her paramedic husband amongst the wedding party, throw in a family with secrets and a sister who has overdone it on the sauce to say the least. This is clearly a recipe for disaster but seeing how the story unfolded was the beauty.
As I said in the previous review this could be a TV Thriller. There was so much going on and so many secrets and red herrings. I guess weddings really do bring out the best and worst of people. In hindsight I should have seen it coming but I honestly didn't and that was the beauty of it. Every single time I thought I knew who was responsible and why I was proved wrong and stumped. I almost inhaled this tale. The characters were complex with so many intricate details and additional secrets that kept me on my toes and eager for more.
DI James Walker and his team are a likeable bunch and it was another treat seeing where the story took them. I was in two minds about downloading and listening to the fourth instalment before the year was out. That wasn't to be so hopefully by Christmas I'll have two more DI James Walker novels to inhale.
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