The Girls in the Snow: A completely unputdownable crime thriller (Nikki Hunt Book 1)
Two teenage girls, frozen in the snow, deep in the forests of Stillwater, Minnesota. Special Agent Nikki Hunt hasn't set foot in her hometown for two decades, yet something about this case pulls her back. She's convinced the killer is local, someone who knew these woods, knew where to hide the bodies, and fully expected them to stay hidden. The local sheriff's department, meanwhile, is chasing the wrong lead entirely, too fixated on a notorious serial killer to consider that the answer might be far closer to home. Then a third body turns up, a red silk ribbon woven into the victim's hair, and everything shifts. The ribbon isn't random. It ties directly to the secrets Nikki buried when she fled Stillwater all those years ago. Suddenly, solving the case means excavating her own past, and not everyone in town is comfortable with that. Stacy Green constructs her plot with real precision. The tension builds quietly at first, then quickens into something you genuinely can't outpace. Nikki Hunt is a compelling protagonist, sharp and wounded in equal measure, and the story around her is tightly wound, full of the kind of misdirection that keeps you second-guessing right up to the final pages. Readers have praised it as the sort of book that commandeers your entire evening, your sleep, your concentration at work the following morning. One described abandoning all household duties until it was finished. Another said they couldn't stop thinking about it even when the book was closed. That feels about right. Perfect for readers who enjoy Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, or Robert Dugoni, this is a confident and absorbing series opener that leaves you immediately reaching for book two.
- Author: Stacy Green
- Publisher: Bookouture
- Genre: Mystery
- ISBN: 978-1838888794
- Pages: 320 pages