Dead of Winter

This was a real pageturner, I just had to know who the 'butcher' was! The setting was perfect with a vibe of locked-room mystery, albeit very claustrophic and disturbing. The author dished out one plot twist after another, each more believable than the previous. Unfortunately, I figured out on who the real 'butcher' was early in the book, but more than once I was (almost) led astray from that path. Superbly written and full of non-stop nail-biting suspense, this story easily put Darcy Coates on my list of favorite authors and I will definitely check out her other work.