{"id":18122,"date":"2023-07-10T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=18122"},"modified":"2023-07-09T21:44:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T01:44:18","slug":"review-dead-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-dead-of-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18123\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-dead-of-winter\/deadofwinter\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/deadofwinter.jpg?fit=667%2C1000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"667,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"deadofwinter\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/deadofwinter.jpg?fit=233%2C350&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/deadofwinter.jpg?fit=667%2C1000&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18123\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/deadofwinter.jpg?resize=233%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"cover of Dead of Winter\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/deadofwinter.jpg?resize=233%2C350&amp;ssl=1 233w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/deadofwinter.jpg?w=667&amp;ssl=1 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 85vw, 233px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dead-Winter-Darcy-Coates\/dp\/1728270251\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=FY93ZF4TTS2X&amp;keywords=Dead+of+Winter+by+Darcy+Coates&amp;qid=1688952196&amp;sprefix=dead+of+winter+by+darcy+coates%2Caps%2C243&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Dead of Winter\u00a0<\/em>by Darcy Coates<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Poisoned Pen Press (July 11, 2023)\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>352 pages; $14.39 paperback; $4.99 e-book<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HaleyNewlin22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haley Newlin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Darcy Coates upholds her reputation as a deft storyteller with a knack for conjuring atmospheric page-turners in her latest release,\u00a0<em>Dead of Winter<\/em>,\u00a0&#8220;an icy homage to Agatha Christie&#8217;s\u00a0<em>And Then There Were None<\/em>.&#8221; <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;re all going to die here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Christa is always anxious. She wonders if she&#8217;ll ever feel normal after the accident. But with Kiernan, that gnawing angst subsides. She feels safe. Protected. Loved.<\/p>\n<p>So, when the chance for their first trip together arises, Christa boards a tour bus headed for a vacation lodge in the mountains, beaming. But the weather takes a turn for the worst. It&#8217;s unrelenting. Deathly. The eight strangers take cover in an abandoned hunting cabin.<\/p>\n<p>And heads will roll.<\/p>\n<p>Seven. Six. The group diminishes as lodge guests are slaughtered and sinisterly displayed. Someone is hunting them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;re all going to die here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though Coates sets readers up for a cozy murder mystery, she only roosts the line between horror and thriller for a short time. With Adam Nevill-level scares,\u00a0<em>Dead of Winter<\/em>\u00a0blackens its pages with dread so dire readers will reach for the nearest night light.<\/p>\n<p>The clever pacing makes each character detail suspect. The &#8220;killer is among us&#8221; paranoia mounts effectively, too, as each character assumes an archetype: the army vet with know-how; the strange father-son duo; the kind but lonesome artist on business; and so on. However, a few chapters, possibly intended for misdirection, sometimes bogged my anticipation. Still, I couldn&#8217;t help but reach for this book. I had to know how <em>Dead of Winter<\/em> ends. And it&#8217;s bloody masterful.<\/p>\n<p>Darcy Coates&#8217;\u00a0<em>Dead of Winter<\/em>\u00a0will be a favorite 2023 release for anyone who enjoys classic murder mysteries, Showtime&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Yellowjackets<\/em>\u00a0series,\u00a0inspired by The Donner Party and the 1972 Andes Flight Disaster, and isolation horror.<\/p>\n<p>This one will make readers feel like they opened a grimoire only to be trapped, frozen under its chaos.<\/p>\n<p>A must-read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead of Winter\u00a0by Darcy Coates Poisoned Pen Press (July 11, 2023)\u00a0 352 pages; $14.39 paperback; $4.99 e-book Reviewed by\u00a0Haley Newlin Darcy Coates upholds her reputation as a deft storyteller with a knack for conjuring atmospheric page-turners in her latest release,\u00a0Dead of Winter,\u00a0&#8220;an icy homage to Agatha Christie&#8217;s\u00a0And Then There Were None.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[2691,2974,2299,79],"class_list":["post-18122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-darcy-coates","tag-dead-of-winter","tag-haley-newlin","tag-reviews"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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