Taken in the Cold by Roger Stelljes Blog Tour for Booktoure

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Taken in the Cold by Roger Stelljes Synopsis: "Make sure you wrap up warm for school, honey. A blizzard is on the way." Ten-year-old Teddy rolls his eyes at his mother. But then he hears a bang... By the time police arrive, Teddy's mother is dead. His open school backpack is strewn across the hallway. And Teddy is nowhere to be found.   When gunshots ring out from an exclusive family home on the edge of Northern Pine Lake,  Agent Tori Hunter  races through the gathering snowstorm to discover that  ten-year-old Teddy Marist has disappeared . His mother and her new boyfriend are dead in the family kitchen, breakfast still cooking on the stove. And racing to track down Teddy's father,  Tori finds he is missing too.   Local police are certain this is a simple case of a jealous ex-husband turned violent over his recent divorce. But interviewing everyone she can about Teddy's father, Tori's gut has her questioning if he would really kidnap his own child?  An...
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Bitterroot Lake by Alicia Beckman Narrated by Linda Jones

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Title: Bitterroot Lake
Author: Alicia Beckman
Narrator: Linda Jones
Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
Format: Audiobook
Listening length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Date of Publication: April 13, 2021


Description: When four women separated by tragedy reunite at a lakeside Montana lodge, murder forces them to confront everything they thought they knew about the terrifying accident that tore them apart, in Agatha Award-winning author Alicia Beckman's suspense debut

Twenty-five years ago, during a celebratory weekend at historic Whitetail Lodge, Sarah McCaskill had a vision. A dream. A nightmare. When a young man was killed, Sarah's guilt over having ignored the warning in her dreams devastated her. Her friendships with her closest friends, and her sister, fell apart as she worked to build a new life in a new city. But she never stopped loving Whitetail Lodge on the shores of Bitterroot Lake.

Now that she's a young widow, her mother urges her to return to the lodge for healing. But when she arrives, she's greeted by an old friend--and by news of a murder that's clearly tied to that tragic day she'll never forget.

And the dreams are back, too. What dangers are they warning of this time? As Sarah and her friends dig into the history of the lodge and the McCaskill family, they uncover a legacy of secrets and make a discovery that gives a chilling new meaning to the dreams. Now, they can no longer ignore the ominous portents from the past that point to a danger more present than any of them could know.

My Thoughts: When I initially requested this audiobook, I thought the description sounded very interesting. I'm an avid reader of murder mystery books, so I thought this would be right up my alley. 

I found the story to move very slowly. The story never grabbed my attention and I found myself wishing for the book to be over.

Yes, there is a death and a murder in the book but they are both anticlimactic. I was expecting more of a police procedural book and this was not that at all. The main character I found to dwell too much in the past. I also found her to be sort of whiney. 

The narrator was hard for me to listen to as she has a soft voice. The way she reads the story doesn't help draw you in.  I often found myself zoning out while listening to the book.

Rating: 2 out of 5 stars. This is a slow book. There is no grab to it and the narrator is hard to listen to.

About the Author: Alicia Beckman adored living in Seattle as a college student and young lawyer, but is happiest back home in her native Montana, where she lives with her husband, a musician and doctor of natural medicine, and their full-figured gray tuxedo cat. As Leslie Budewitz, she's the bestselling author of the Seattle Spice Shop and Food Lovers' Village mysteries. A three-time Agatha Award winner, for Best Short Story (2018), Best First Novel (2013), and Best Nonfiction (2011), she is a past president of Sisters in Crime and a current board member of Mystery Writers of America. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

Many thanks to Dreamscape Media and Netgalley for this review copy. This is my honest opinion.

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