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Loading... Chill Factorby Sandra Brown
None.  jbarr5 | Mar 22, 2013 |  Five women have gone missing over the last two years in Clearly, North Carolina, and authorities have had to suspend the search for the most recent due to the weather. Police Chief Dutch Burton has people to interview and FBI agents to settle with, but his mind is on his newly ex-wife, Lily, and the way they divided up their belongings that afternoon. A voicemail she left indicated she struck a man on the drive down the mountain and returned to their cabin with him. There’s a brutal blizzard settling in over Cleary and the roads are treacherous. The forced isolation makes the town folk uneasy because one of them is a murderer. This is the third Sandra Brown thriller I’ve read and I have to say, she hasn’t disappointed me yet. I really love her snappy dialogue and vivid characters. I gave her kudos for her interesting family dynamics and for having strong female characters but occasionally I became irked at the talky women or the hardiness of the men. I suppose most thrillers at some point strain credulity, perhaps because if they didn’t ride that line we’d become bored. I’m not sure if it was a good idea to read this one during winter – imaging all that snow and ice made me feel about ten degrees colder. Brown stays true to her romance roots, gives us a few sultry scenes to warm it up, but I think this one might be better read on a beach towel during summer. (  ) VictoriaPL | Jan 26, 2012 | I thought this book was very good. It was a fast reading book. The story was quite different. It held my interest all the way to the end. I thought it was very well writtrn. I liked the ending. It kept you in suspense throughout the book. ( ) judy484 | Sep 1, 2011 | excellent thriller; killer called blue is abducting women; tierny is suspect, lily is heroine ( ) afarrington | Aug 20, 2011 | One of her best! A sexy, page-turner. Lust, jealousy and murder suffuse Brown's crisp thriller (after White Hot), set in the snowbound mountains of North Carolina. Lilly and Dutch Burton's marriage didn't withstand the loss of their three-year-old daughter, despite their attempt at a fresh start with the purchase of a vacation cabin in bucolic Cleary, N.C., where the novel opens on the divorced couple discussing its sale. Dutch is now Cleary's chief of police, and Lilly is a magazine editor in Atlanta. As she races back to the city to beat a blizzard, her car skids out, striking a hiker emerging from the woods. Turns out he's a man she knows: handsome freelance writer Ben Tierney, whom she met and flirted with the summer before. With no choice but to wait out the storm in the cabin with Ben, who is injured, Lilly calls Dutch, but he can't reach her via the now impassable mountain road. Meanwhile, Cleary is haunted by the case of five missing women—all now feared dead. With Lilly still stranded, Dutch goes ballistic when the FBI arrives in town with evidence that Tierney is the serial killer. The snowy suspense will cool off Brown's fans during the dog days of summer. (Aug.) (  ) caroren | Apr 25, 2011 | no reviews | add a review
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(retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:42:31 -0500)
Magazine editor Lilly Martin, packing up the vacation cabin she and her ex-husband owned in Cleary, North Carolina, where he now works as chief of police, becomes trapped in a snowstorm with Ben Tierney, who she struck with her car while trying to drive down the mountain, and the situation becomes critical when she uncovers evidence that Tierney may be the serial killer who has been operating in the area for over two years.… (more)
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NC 4 women have disappeared left with a blue ribbon last where they were seen.
Lily Martin is back to close her house for good. Trying to outrun the snow she runs into
Ben Tiery and they hold out at the cabin while the blizzard goes on...
Sexual scenes really keep you glued to this book and you will never think the ending is what the book is leading up to...
The police think Ben is the serial killer...Book follows others families and you discover the link they have to the whole situation, cool!
Love the time they spend together and get to really talk. (