Review by Linda Kay Hardie
Details at the end of this post on how to enter to win a copy of the book and a link to purchase it.Alexa Glock’s career in Bone Chilling captivated me from the beginning. What a change from the olden days of the 1980s when women investigators were generally news reporters or small-time private investigators. In the 1990s, we began to see women in domestic-type jobs, like caterers or dog walkers who stumbled over bodies in their varied circumstances. Now women protagonists are finding new and challenging crime-related careers. Alexa Glock, the protagonist in Sara E. Johnson’s new novel, is a forensic odontologist. You might call her a CSI dentist. Cool, huh?
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This sixth book in the series stands on its own with necessary background information woven skillfully into the action without spoilers. New readers can follow easily and have the happy anticipation of five more great books to add to teetering TBR piles. Meanwhile, returning readers won’t be frustrated by boring info dumps derailing the velocity of this fast-paced mystery.
Glock is competent and self-confident. At least with her forensic skills. She does second-guess her people skills, especially in her personal life. When she falls through a crevasse on the glacier, why does she think of her brother before her boyfriend? Did she make a mistake moving from the USA to Down Under? But the job she has in New Zealand is more exciting and challenging than anything she could have found in the States.
Johnson weaves an intriguing and spine-tingling story here. On the job, Alexa is tasked with critical and challenging identifications in an ice death (or deaths, plural) and a fire death while juggling her relationship with boyfriend Bruce and meeting his sulky teenaged daughters for the first time during a ski trip.
The hard-to-predict weather and snow conditions keep throwing hazards into Glock’s life. During a popular snowboard competition, an avalanche sweeps away one of Bruce’s daughters. To find out how Alexa Glock reacts, be sure to block out plenty of time for reading, because you won’t want to be disturbed in the middle of the action in Sara E. Johnson’s Bone Chilling.
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Linda Kay Hardie writes horror, crime, historical, and SF/fantasy stories (often with humor) and poetry, plus essays (usually about cats but sometimes baseball). Her stories appear in many anthologies, including Lunatic Fringe, Gag Me with a Spoon, A Killing at the Copa, Sex & Violins, and The Perp Wore Pumpkin from White City Press. She’s a member of Horror Writers Association, Short Mystery Fiction Society, Queer Crime Writers, Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators, and Cat Writers Association. Linda is an Abyssinian Rescue Ranger, a volunteer foster mom in purebred cat rescue, as well as a professional teddy bear builder. Help your neighbors overcome food scarcity during the holiday season by buying books! Proceeds from The Perp Wore Pumpkin, volumes 1 and 2, go to Second Harvest food banks and Feeding America. Get your copies from most major booksellers or directly from the publisher at these links: whitecitypress.com/product/the-perp-wore-pumpkin-edited-by-j-alan-hartman/MM/12 whitecitypress.com/product/perp2/MM/12
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