I enjoyed the book. Characters were interesting. The reason for the 3 stars were the inconsistencies in the book. It became confusing to read when it was day then suddenly evening, etc. also there were several instances of words being used that felt incorrect.

Kept me guessing and wanting to read more. Interesting.

Carly Phoenix doesn’t play by the rules. As a member of the FBI that doesn’t put the right face in front of the camera, so she gets transferred from the BAU to cold-cases in her hometown of Chicago. Amidst familiar streets, she latches onto a cold case and then realizes it shares similarities to others. Will she find justice for the women in her case files or more empty dust? I wanted to like this book. Some of the flashbacks were disturbingly focused, but overall another draft would have helped work out some of the inconsistencies that frustrated me as a reader.

A cold case is solved. Women were murmured and their bodies were frozen. Carly solved the case after being demoted to cold cases. I was upset because of the unfairness, yet she continued doing her job and persevered. Great work.

She needs to buy and use a Thesaurus her boring repetitive use of the word macabre was unnecessary at the least but also improperly used. Consequently the book was tedious and difficult to want to continue reading

Overly descriptive that is just way too much, to the point the story doesn’t flow very well because the writer describes to death every single action and moment.

The story was a bit shallow; I could not try to identify the killer as she picked up one person at a time and then discarded him. And Stark tries too hard as a writer. There is no need for a simile or metaphor in every single sentence. Take out the frills and it’s a decent novella.

The book was really good. It was interesting and had a different ending than I thought. Thanks.

The first two bodies were found frozen, but six months apart, Chicago isn’t frozen for 6 months at a time.

Good story and brilliant writing except for redundancy of words like specter, shadows, clawed, thread, unraveled, and breath fog.