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Oct 31, 2024 1:31 AM

Author:P. J. Tracy,Sarah Borges

Snow Blind

enguin presents the audiobook edition of Snow Blind by P. J. Tracy, read by Sarah Borges.

The Dead of Winter...

Minneapolis, winter's first white flakes; a park full of snowmen. But the layers of packed snow hide a goulish surprise ...

First, the bodies of two cops are found inside the snowmen and then a day later, in the countryside to the north, Sheriff Iris Rikker makes a similarly shocking discovery. Soon Detectives Gino and Magozzi are sent north through the worst blizzard Minnesota's seen for years to find what else links the investigations.

But some secrets you don't want to uncover. And as the cases unravel, it seems snowmen aren't the only ones with something to hide ...

Reviews

PJ Tracy is about to become a household name

—— Daily Mirror

Sucked me in from the first page. The characters were intriguing, the plot thrilling and the writing effortless. It has been a long time since a book engaged me like this. I will be telling everyone I know to read this book

—— Sally Hepworth , bestselling author of The Family Next Door

Very well written and suspenseful with characters to believe in; it was deeply psychological and I thoroughly enjoyed it

—— Lisa Ballantyne , bestselling author of The Guilty One

Praise for B M Carroll

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A cast of warm, engaging characters in a sparkling story that crosses the globe between Ireland and Australia. I enjoyed every page of this touching, authentic novel

—— Liane Moriarty , on Worlds Apart

A clever eye for characterisation and story

—— Cathy Kelly , on Once Lost

With all the humour and empathy of Binchy, Carroll captures the conflicts and compromises women make

—— Daily Telegraph, on Once Lost

Superb... Osborne's dialogue and description echo Chandler's wit and world-weariness with uncanny skill

—— Mark Sanderson , Evening Standard

An exhilarating talent...one of our finest writers

—— Francesca Angelini , Sunday Times

Lawrence Osborne, an accomplished writer of fiction and nonfiction, has been asked to imagine a new case for Philip Marlow and -- have a smell from the barrel, all you gunsels and able grables -- it crackles...brisk and disarming

—— Laura Lipman , New York Times Book Review

The tone here is elegiac, the pace relaxed. If you’ve missed Marlowe, you’ll find this a worthy addition to the canon

—— Barry Forshaw , Guardian

Philip Marlowe is back in a seedily satisfying thriller on the US-Mexican border

—— Sunday Times

Osborne does a fine job in giving Marlowe a fresh assignment in this evocative, melancholy homage… Only to Sleep is more than a detective story. It is also a meditation on ageing and how, even in the autumn of a man’s life, he still is driven to pit his skills and courage against dangerous adversaries

—— Adam LeBor , Financial Times

Osborne's brilliant innovation is to show us Philip Marlowe as an old man in the late eighties, retired to Mexico. Marlowe's got one last job: looking for a man called Zinn

—— Mail on Sunday

A gripping, elegantly written crime story about age and decline… with its blend of mystery and humanity it’s exactly the sort of novel [Raymond Chandler] would have been pleased to inspire

—— Tom Williams , Spectator

Obviously a lover of Chandler’s work, Osborne has written a novel of excellence, with a good, slightly chaotic plot (as, often, were Chandler’s) and some wonderful atmosphere

—— Marcel Berlins , The Times

The most enjoyable book I’ve read in a long time… I enjoyed it more than the original… it’s Lawrence Osborne being just brilliant

—— Katie Law , Monocle Culture Show

I’m lost in admiration for what Lawrence Osborne has done here… he’s created a brilliant standalone novel… it’s a wonderful book

—— John Mitchinson , Monocle Culture Show

A new Philip Marlowe story based on Raymond Chandler's creation. Marlowe is the man I want to be, both the book character and as played by Humphrey Bogart on film. Here is Marlowe at 72... which just happens to be my age

—— Terry Deary , Daily Mail

A valedictory investigation, complete with sinister bad guys and a memorable femme fatale

—— John Williams , Mail on Sunday

Osborne has mastered Chandler’s gift for metaphor…and deepens Marlowe’s psyche as he responds to “a sad summons from the depths of his own wasted past”

—— Publishers Weekly

Osborne’s continuation of Raymond Chandler feels like the real thing

—— i

[Only to Sleep] is compelling and Osborne often captures Marlowe’s voice

—— Paul Connolly , Metro

Osborne gets Chandler and his version of the enduring detective, Philip Marlowe, is the best I've read... This mystery is well plotted and plays out with a twist to satisfy the readers who figure things out for themselves but still like to be surprised… if Osborne were to write another Marlowe thriller… I will be there to read it

—— Nudge

I’m gripped

—— YOU Magazine online

Fans of Gone Girl, Serial and Making a Murderer will not be able to put this book down. I promise you all that!

—— Let's Start With This One Blog

A must read

—— I Love Reading This blog
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