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A Wicked Snow
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A Wicked Snow
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A Wicked Snow

Written by Gregg Olsen

Narrated by Kevin Foley

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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Hannah Griffin was a girl when tragedy struck on her family's farm. She still remembers the flames reflected against the newly fallen snow and the bodies the police dug up—one of them her mother's. It was the nation's worst murder scene in decades and the killer was never found. Two decades later Hannah is a CSI investigating a case of child abuse when the past comes hurtling back. Years of buried questions are brought to life. A killer with unfinished business is on the hunt. And an anonymous message turns Hannah's blood cold: Your Mom called...
LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 15, 2010
ISBN9781605486451
Author

Gregg Olsen

#1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen has written more than twenty books, including the first book in the Nicole Foster series, The Sound of Rain. Known for his ability to create vivid and fascinating narratives, he’s appeared on multiple television and radio shows and news networks, such as Good Morning America, Dateline, Entertainment Tonight, CNN, and MSNBC. In addition, Olsen has been featured in Redbook, People, and Salon magazine, as well as in the Seattle Times, Los Angeles Times, and New York Post. Both his fiction and nonfiction works have received critical acclaim and numerous awards, including prominence on the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. Washington State officially selected his young adult novel, Envy, for the National Book Festival, and The Deep Dark was named Idaho Book of the Year. A Seattle native who lives with his wife in rural Washington State, Olsen’s already at work on his next thriller. Visit him at www.greggolsen.com, or follow him on Twitter @Gregg_Olsen.

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Rating: 3.6503267830065362 out of 5 stars
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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I read this book for my bookclub. I found it to be somewhat of a chore to read. The characters were flat and devoid of any depth. And, there were plenty of characters, main and minor, but the story came off as being rushed so you could not establish a liking for any of the characters.There was a good plot however, I felt the author should have switched his focus from Hannah to Marcus Wheaton's mom who is the catalyst for the unfolding plot yet was regulated to such a minor role.I didn't necessarily hate the book but it wasn't something I would pick up on my own to read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A good read. The story is interesting and the characters well rounded.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I am upset with Scrbd. We fell asleep during the last chapter but it would not less us play it again. We do not know how it ended.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Very good story. I got lost a few times but didn't stay lost. The narrator was excellent!
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Terrible writing and terrible narrator.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This reminded me of a less enthralling Gillian Flynn novel. I was interested the whole time, but the end was a bit of a let down for me.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    CSI techs don't investigate crimes.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Disappointing ending, poor resolutions, and disproportionate character deaths make this a novel I forced myself to finish.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This was a great read, but the ending was unsatisfying.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I liked this book. I liked it a lot. I liked the protagonist, Hannah, who was involved in the most heinous of crimes as a child and grows into adult hood trying to forget. Most of all she tries to forget her mother, the main antagonist, who was killed during the crime, but continues to take on many forms of evil throughout the story. Hannah tries to push the events into the furthers recesses of her mind, but forgetting isn't possible. Hannah has never given up trying to understand exactly how and why the crime took place.

    While the author, Gregg Olsen, is a well known true crime writer, this was his first novel. To use the vernacular of the baseball enthusiast, he hit it out of the friggin park. While fast paced, the plot followed a sensible and reasonable story line. The characters were human, a compliment in its highest form to aspiring authors. The use of flashbacks to fill in bits of the back story was well done, even though it's becoming somewhat over used since the success of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl.

    Honestly, I don't know why it's taken me so long to prepare a review of this novel. It's not like I've been immersed in anything comparable to A Wicked Snow. Using my personal rating system to determine my level of appreciation, the degree of sadness I experience upon completing a book, I was sad when I finished, very sad. I wanted another chapter, then another after that. I put off starting another book to give myself time to think about the story that I just finished. I liked it enough to search for Olsen's second novel, and I will buy it.

  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Hannah Griffin is the sole survivor of an arson/murder crime committed on the family's Oregon Christmas Tree farm. Twenty years later, her mother remains the prime suspect and although she could have been killed in the blaze, nobody in the novel really believes she is dead. Hannah chases rumor and speculation in an attempt to find her mother. Hannah also struggles to overcome the guilt of surviving the infamous crime and the legacy of her presumed serial killer mother. While the characters are rather predictable, this novel is a consumable, friendly reading mystery with a fun little ending that I never saw coming.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I thought it was good up until the end...the end felt rushed and confusing.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A Wicked Snow is the story of a young girl, Hannah, who is traumatized by the loss of her brothers and mother in a horrific fire at their Christmas tree farm on Christmas morning. Hannah is sent to live with her aunt. She grows up to be a crime scene investigator and is still haunted by the night so many years ago. When she receives a strange package, and begins getting phone calls from a reporter after so many years, Hannah begins to think that her mother didn't die in the fire, but is alive and well somewhere. She begins searching for her with the lead investigator from the FBI.It took a little bit for me to get into this story. It began to pick up the pace in the later part of the book. Their were many characters involved in the story, but each had their own part of Hannah's past or present. She is portrayed as a tough cookie, but when it comes down to it, she's not as tough as she hopes to be. Her partner Ripp wasn't as developed as I would have liked, but he was only a side character. I just expected more from him. There was an incident in the latter half of the book that really didn't resolve itself for me. I'm a little bummed about it. But overall, I enjoyed the book. I have another of his that I plan to read soon, so I'm anxious to compare them.