![The Killer in the Snow (DI James Walker series, Book 2) by [Alex Pine]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51QgievzNdL.jpg)
The first fall of snow can be fatal…
A year has passed since DI James Walker cracked his biggest case yet, and he’s hoping for peace and quiet this festive season.
But across the fells, a local farmer returns home on Christmas Eve to find footsteps in the fresh snow that lead down to his unused basement – and no footsteps leading away. Days later, his body is found, alongside those of his wife and daughter.
Without a neighbour for miles, there are no witnesses and little evidence. And the crime scene has strange echoes of another terrible murder committed at the farmhouse, twenty years earlier…
James knows that to catch this killer, he needs to solve a case that has long since gone cold…
Perfect for fans of smash-hit TV series Whitehouse Farm, Simon McCleave’s The Snowdonia Killings and Catherine Cooper’s The Chalet.
No. of pages:- 391 pages
Publisher:- Avon
Date published:- will be published on October 28th 2021
Genre:- Thriller
Rating:- 4/5 stars
This is the second book of the DI James Walker series, although this is the first time I am reading the series.
In a farm, a father, mother and a daughter were found dead inside the barn. It happened to look like a suicide–daughter was stabbed, the mother was shot and the father shot himself. But when the detectives finds that the father, Robert Bateman is in huge debts and the Bateman seemed to be having enemies, they soon ruled this case as a murder.
The story started out a bit slow but soon towards the middle, it got a bit more interesting as the secrets started revealing about the family and that there was another murder that happened on the very same farm almost twenty four years ago with a baby missing. Soon, this begins a cat and mouse chase game and then there were some twists and turns that it got fast paced until the end.
Overall this thriller is a slow burn book–it wasn’t bad but it was good too that will keep you engrossed in the book.
Many thanks to Netgalley and Avon publishers for the ARC. The review is based on my opinion only.
Alex Pine is the pseudonym of a bestselling author who has also written books under the names Jaime Raven, James Raven and JP Carter. He was born and raised on a council estate in South London and left school at sixteen. Before long, he embarked on a career in journalism, which took him all over the world – many of the stories he covered were crime-related. He then became a television producer and for a number of years was director of a major UK news division and co-owned a TV production company. He now splits his time between homes in Hampshire and Spain with his wife.
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