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  • Written by: Brian Freeman
  • Narrated by: January LaVoy
  • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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The Deep, Deep Snow

Written by: Brian Freeman
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Publisher's Summary

In an intense, emotional mystery that spans a decade in the life of a small town, best-selling author Brian Freeman brings us an unforgettable heroine who discovers that the dead may sometimes be easier to rescue than the living. 

Deputy Shelby Lake was abandoned as a baby, saved by a stranger who found her in the freezing cold. Now, years later, a young boy is missing - and Shelby is the one who must rescue a child. 

The only evidence of what happened to 10-year-old Jeremiah Sloan is a bicycle left behind on a lonely road. After a desperate search fails to locate him, the close bonds of Shelby’s hometown begin to fray under the weight of accusations and suspicion. Everyone around her is keeping secrets. Her adoptive father, her best friend, her best friend’s young daughter - they all have something to hide. Even Shelby is concealing a mistake that could jeopardize her career and her future. 

Unearthing the lies of the people in Jeremiah’s life doesn’t get the police and the FBI any closer to finding him. As time passes and the case grows cold, Shelby worries that the mystery will stay buried forever under the deep, deep snow. But even the deepest snow melts in the spring. 

When a tantalizing clue finally comes to light, Shelby must confront the darkest lie of all. Exposing the truth about Jeremiah will leave no one’s life untouched - including her own.

©2019 Brian N. Freeman (P)2019 Audible Originals, LLC.

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"Freeman brings all the characters to life, highlighting their strengths as well as the darkness that lies within each of them, thus adding a delicious sense of uncertainty as to their motives. Readers will have a tough time putting this one down." (Publishers Weekly)

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Great Begining to a new series

The author's writing caught my attention after reading the latest editions of the Jason Bourne series which the Ludlum estate had chosen Brian Freeman to continue to write and thrill readers. I read some reviews on the latest series and decided to give it a try. And truly, the book was no disappointment although it is a slow burner.

The plot is set in a small town Avery Weir, in Minnesota, where the Sherrif of Mittel County, Tom Ginn finds an abandoned baby by his doorstep one cold winter night after returning from fishing from a nearby lake. He chooses to adopt the little girl and names her Shelby Lake, the place where he was fishing. She grows up in the county and twenty-five years later joins her dad as a deputy in the Sheriff's department.

In the small town that is normally quiet and devoid of any crimes, one day a 10-year-old boy Jeremiah Sloan disappears without any trace. All search by the sheriff's department, Shelby and Adam, and the search team of locals in and around the woods leads to no result. At about the same time, another resident of the county, Keith Whalan's wife Colleen is shot dead. Investigations and circumstantial evidence convict Keith of first-degree homicide and is sentenced to prison. Meanwhile, the talk of the town is that Keith may have something to do with Jeremiah's disappearance as he could have been a potential witness. However, Keith pleads not guilty on both counts. Meanwhile, the Sloans have accepted the fate of their missing child and moved on.

Fast forward another 10 years when by sheer coincidence, some evidence of Jeremiah is found at an old and abandoned holiday camp deep in the woods. Shelby delves deep into this missing cold case to uncover what happened to him. As she begins her investigation with an FBI agent, she soon realizes that everyone involved in the case has something to hide, some dark secrets, including herself and which could put her reputation at stake. By this time, Jeremiah's brother Adrian has also joined the Sheriff's department and is assisting Shelby in the investigation. Shelby's father has retired from the force and is exhibiting early signs of Alzheimer's. Nevertheless, as the secrets come to life, she acknowledges that all through she has been wrong and is aghast at the revelations of what happened on the day Jeremiah Sloan disappeared.

The plot is narrated in the POV of the 1st person, Shelby. The suspense begins from the very onset and the climax was indeed a surprise that I hadn't comprehended at all. There are also a few other personalities in the book who provide a supporting cast to the wonderful plot. I loved Tom's character as a Sherrif, calm and composed during the police procedures, a role model in grooming his subordinates, and even during the early stages of Alzheimer's, he was pivotal in providing a lead in the case as his memories were full of passion for his work. Shelby is torn between the responsibilities of her ailing father and a cold case that has just seen light at the end of the tunnel. She maintains the right balance of relationships, friendship, love, and loyalty amidst all the struggles within herself.

A well-written page-turner from Brian Freeman that will keep readers guessing with some twists and turns. I am intrigued by what next is in store in the second book of the series - The Ursulina and waiting to lay my hands on this book.

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A Compelling listen!

The narrator takes us on a seamless ride! Doing justice to a very well written story!

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