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    Cold River
    Cold River
    Cold River
    Audiobook10 hours

    Cold River

    Written by CARLA NEGGERS

    Narrated by Carol Monda

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    The New York Times best-selling author of runaway hits such as The Angel and Dark Sky, Carla Neggers blends suspenseful romantic fiction with realistic and memorable characters-and the results have earned her an immense following. In Cold River, Neggers sweeps readers away to Black Falls, Vermont, for a riveting adventure set in a small town that's hiding more than a few secrets.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 30, 2009
    ISBN9781440774157
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    CARLA NEGGERS

    New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers is always plotting her next adventure, whether in life or for one of her books. Her fertile imagination and curious nature make her ready for anything. It is also these qualities that sparked her love of reading as a child and continue to drive her passion for storytelling today. With her trademark blend of action, suspense and down-to-earth, realistic characters caught up in extraordinary circumstances, her novels never fail to take her readers on an exciting journey. Carla began writing as a youngster, when she'd grab a pad and pen and climb a tree to spin her stories. Growing up in western Massachusetts, she is the third of seven children. Just before she was born, her Dutch immigrant father and Southern-born mother packed up the car with two kids and all their belongings and headed north to start a new life. They settled in an eighteenth-century carriage house on ninety acres and began a long process of renovation. After graduating as valedictorian of her high school class, she went on to major in journalism at Boston University, graduating magna cum laude. She enjoyed a brief stint as an arts and entertainment writer, then turned to writing fiction full-time and now has more than fifty books to her credit. Travel and research both play a large part in Carla's writing. She can often trace the germination of a plot to the exact moment of inspiration. “It's part of the fun of being a writer—you never know what will spark an idea. For example, on a trip to the Netherlands some years ago, we did a tour of a canal-like waterway,” she says. “I kept thinking—what would happen if a dead body floated by? What if it was an American? It's the way my mind works—around me, everyone else was admiring the quaint countryside. I was devising a murder.” Once a plot is hatched, the real researching begins. Her novels have taken her atop the northeast's highest peaks, onto a shooting range with a police academy instructor and across the world as she scouts out locations and seeks the authenticity that imbues her novels. The author's greatest pleasure comes in those moments when she feels she's gotten the story just right—when it all comes together on the pages of her book, exactly the way she's envisioned the tale in her mind. Then, when readers connect with the story, her satisfaction is complete. “Everything comes down to the finished book,” says the author. “When I hear from a reader that the story resonated, and that he or she had a great time reading it, I know I've done my job and done it well.” When she's not working on her next book, Carla enjoys traveling, hiking and kayaking. She's set out to become a “four-thousand-footer” by climbing all forty-eight peaks over four-thousand feet in the New Hampshire White Mountains, and she's always planning the next trip—and the next adventure—either of which just might inspire a new story. Carla lives in Vermont, where she and her husband have recently renovated their mountain house not far from picturesque Quechee Gorge. 

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    • 5/5
      Half way through in one night. I'm loving this author. And she's local. From Quechee, Vermont.
      Excellent!
    • 3/5
      Murder in Black Falls!

      My thoughts on the book Cold River by Carla Neggers

      Synopsis From The Back Of The Book:

      Hannah Shay has finally shown the town of Black Falls what she’s worth. Her Three Sisters Café is a success, and she’s soon to become a prosecutor. When the café becomes an epicenter for investigators trying to pierce a violent crime ring that’s leaving bloody trails on nearby Cameron Mountain, Hannah suspects a man from her past is involved.

      Sean Cameron returns to the snowy cold of his Vermont hometown to unmask his father’s killer. Sean has the skills and resources to mount his own search, but he must convince the resistant Hannah to cooperate—because the killer is ready to strike again…and closer than anyone ever imagined.

      My Thoughts:

      A murder takes place in this small quiet town and sends shock waves through everyone it touches. The murder has been made to look like an accident and by the time the autopsy shows the truth many months have gone by. This passage of time makes it hard to piece together the truth of what really happened to Drew Cameron on the mountain the fateful day he died. Hannah Shay is one of the main characters in Cold River by Carla Neggers, and she plays sleuth by trying to figure out the truth behind Drew’s murder.

      Although I enjoyed this book, I did not find it all that suspenseful or thrilling. It turned out to be more of a romantic murder mystery. I do like murder mysteries so I found Cold River to be a good read.

      This is the second book in the Black Falls Novel series and perhaps if I had read the first book, Cold Pursuit, I may have had a different opinion of this book. I did enjoy the characters, at least the ones that played the greatest part in Cold River by Carla Neggers.

      The greatest lesson in this book is that there are those of us who believe that we are all on our own to deal with the ugly reality of life. That may not always be the case. If we would only just stop for a moment we might realize that there are people who are willing to help us or who have always been there helping in small ways we may not always see.

      My Rating:

      Because this book was touted as ratcheting up the suspense and tension and I did not find it all that suspenseful or that tense of a read I am going to give this book a rating of three ***, which means that there was some boring parts in the story but enough interesting events to keep my interest so not a bad read all in all. It was a good murder mystery with a bit of romance thrown in to try and sweeten the pot.
    • 1/5
      Very disappointed with this book. The plot appears muddled and ill-defined. The characters are very flat. The dialogue rambles and often times seems quite pointless. The action seems to be thrown in just to provide a change of pace from the flat characters and dialogue. So not worth reading IMHO.
    • 4/5
      Black Falls, Vermont, is still reeling from having contract killers in their midst. Especially since there is at least one loose end, the person who set off a car bomb killing the second killer. Suspicion has fallen on the local bad boy, back in town after a few months in prison, but his childhood friend is determined to defend him.Another solid entry in Neggers's long-running series of interlocking Secret Service suspense novels.