Blog Tour Review, The Snowstorm

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The Snowstorm
Tríona Walsh

335 pages
Bookouture
Published February 2, 2023

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About the book:

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 ten 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 from the very first page until the final jaw-dropping, heart-racing twist. Fans of Catherine Cooper, Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware will be glued to the pages of this unmissable locked-room mystery.

My review

First I want to mention how incredibly lucky I was to have both the audio and book version as I would have never figured out how to pronounce those Irish names.  Jacqueline Milne did such a good job with the narration of the story.  I appreciated her Irish accent and enjoyed the audio version as much as I did reading the story.

On the 10 year anniversary of her husband’s death, a group of friends meet to remember Cara’s husband.  This really did give me vibes of a Ruth Ware book.  That slow burn, set on an atmospheric island in the middle of a snowstorm.  Since no one can get on or off the island, there are only so many suspects when one of the friends turns up dead.  As the facts start to unfold, it seems the friend had a secret she wanted to tell Cara, that Cara works so desperately to figure out.

Layered and complex, the story slowly unfolds during a snowstorm that is almost like a supporting character.  The friendship is at the root of this story and while I was a step ahead of the story in figuring out the culprit, it is the atmosphere of the story that the author focuses on.

If you like slow burn mysteries and are a fan of Ruth Ware, you should check this one out.  And you can always google the names if you aren’t an audiobook reader.

Author Bio

Tríona Walsh loves reading and writing crime novels but is fairly law abiding in real life. A twice winner of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair competition she lives in Dublin with her four kids, three cats and one husband.

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