Winter Book List #2
Here is list #2 of winter books to cuddle up with. Once again this list is a mix of genres, which I personally love. My moods changes with the weather as well as the holiday seasons. So it only felt right to have options!
I hope you find something good to read on this list!
Book Number one: The Frozen River
Purchase here: https://amzn.to/3VjdTvx
Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine a cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in the town of Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town’s most respected gentlemen—one of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own and possibly hurt those around her.
Link to purchase The Frozen River here: https://amzn.to/3VjdTvx
Book Number Two: The Mistletoe Mystery by Nita Prose
Molly Gray is a lover of the holidays. She spent years with her gran who made them special each year. This year she is finally excited for the holidays again after losing her gran years back. She has a boyfriend who also loves the holiday, but when a gift exchange at the Regency Grand Hotel brings up questions about her new boyfriend, she wonders if she can trust herself and her choices for love.
Readers say this is more of a romance than a mystery, but characters are sweet, and this book is a great holiday novella.
Link to purchase The Mistletoe Mystery here: https://amzn.to/3ZFM4jX
Book Number Three: Beartown by Frederick Backman
Beartown is a small community set in the forest, surrounded by trees and a lake with an old ice rink. The town has put their hope in the junior ice hockey team who is about to compete in the national semifinals, and they actually have a shot at winning.
These teenage boys have now become responsible for the hopes of an entire town. But maybe this burden is too much for them. The semifinal match is the catalyst for a violent act that will leave the town in chaos. Accusations are made, and they affect the whole of Beartown.
Beartown is the first book is a series of three, I have not read the other two books, but Beartown stuck with me for a long time as it explores the hopes as well as secrets that can bring communities together or tear them apart
Link to purchase Beartown here: https://amzn.to/4ghx01i
Book number Four: The Christmas Fix by Lucy Score
The Christmas Fix:
A late season hurricane has hit the town of Merry, and Noah Yates must deliver the bad news of no Christmas festival. But then Cat King the reality TV star arrives to stir things up and save the day. But Noah doesn’t appreciate Cat capitalizing on his own town’s misfortune. He plans to put a stop to Cat, but she in turn plans to save the day and prove that Noah is wrong about her.
Link to purchase The Christmas Fix here: https://amzn.to/3OK77v6
Book Five: The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan
On a secluded bluff overlooking the ocean sits a Victorian house, a home that contains a century’s worth of secrets. Jane Flanagan discovers the abandoned house as a teenager. There are still clothes in the closets, and dishes in the cupboards, even though no one has lived there for decades. The house becomes a place to escape her volatile mother as she grows up.
Jane returns twenty years after she has made grave mistakes in her Harvard job. She finds the house gutted and redone by a woman named Genevieve who swears the house is haunted. She hires Jane to research the history of the house and Jane uncovers decades of secrets, including loss and romance.
Readers say this is a deeply moving story about the women and land that came before us.
Link to purchase The Cliffs here: https://amzn.to/3ZntUll
Book Number Six: Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates
Christa joins a winter tour group into the mountains. She is hopeful she can get over her past and look to good things in her future. As a storm rolls in and the tour bus climbs a narrow road up the side of the Rockies, they must pull over for safety. Blue skies turn bitterly cold mid-afternoon as a blizzard pushes the group of 8 strangers out of their bus and to take shelter in an abandoned hunting cabin.
Deep in the night, their tour guide goes missing. He is discovered the following morning. Eight drops to seven and it becomes clear that someone in the group is killing for sport.
Link to purchase Dead of Winter here: https://amzn.to/41fW1FX
Hope you enjoy the mixed match of winter books on this list.
Comment what you’re reading that’s perfect to cozy up with as I always love more great reading suggestions.
Happy Winter reading.
