Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
Sunday, February 06, 2022
SleuthSayers: Mailorder Murder by Leigh Lundin
SleuthSayers: Mailorder Murder: Few things are sadder than suicide, the hopeless decision to end one’s life. Amazon is making it easy with an old product marketed in new wa...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Nevermore: Death Becomes Them, People of the Abyss, And the Mountains Echoed, The Outsider
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Nevermore: Death Becomes Them, People of the Abys...: Reported by Garry Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and the Notorious by Alix Strauss is ...
Monday, November 16, 2020
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella: Reviewed by Kristin Cady Archer arrives at Harvard with mild trepidation, but optimistic that the prestigious university is where sh...
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew ...
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew ...: Reviewed by Jeanne The Bright Ideas Bookstore draws people from all walks of life. There are the intellectuals, parents bro...
Thursday, April 03, 2014
Barry's Reviews: "Cover Of Snow" by Jenny Milchman
It has been quite some
time since Barry contributed a review that was not specifically FFB related. Please
welcome back Barry to the blog today as he reviews a favorite of mine. Jenny’s new book RUIN FALLS: A Novel is scheduled to be released April 22nd. Jenny is also about to launch yet another book tour and currently plans to be in the Dallas area on August 9th. More details as they become available. If you have not read Cover Of Snow---you really should.
COVER OF SNOW (2013) by
Jenny Milchman
Reviewed by Barry Ergang
After a peaceful night's sleep, Nora Hamilton awakens on a
bitterly cold and snowy January morning in the Adirondacks
to a nightmare. Her husband Brendan, a police officer in the small upstate New York town of Wedeskyull, has committed
suicide. Her grief is as incessant as her determination to find out why. He'd
given no indication that he was depressed about anything, so what drove him to
this desperate act?
Nora's pursuit of the truth pits her against certain townspeople
she thought were her friends; introduces her to strangers who become unlikely allies
(readers won't soon forget Dugger); exposes her subtle conflicts with family
members and a not-so-subtle one with her mother-in-law; puts her and others in
mortal danger and, literally and symbolically, pits her against the treacherous
snow that blankets the region, both concealing and revealing frigid current and
decades-old brutal realities and concomitant attitudes.
The trepidations and mysteries in this suspenseful gem will
have readers turning pages late into the night to find out what happens next, not
least because many a chapter closes with a cliffhanger. Jenny Milchman has
crafted an excellent debut novel studded with turns of phrase that add vividity
without distracting from the headlong narrative thrust.
The novel is not without what some readers will perceive as
flaws. There are unanswered questions about key events, some loose ends are
left dangling, and the fates of some of the characters, major and minor, go
unexplained. These didn't bother me personally; not every issue in life has a
definitive resolution, and not every question gets answered. I can highly
recommend Cover of Snow to fans of
high-tension suspense fiction, and in fact recommended it to a number of
friends even before I'd finished reading it. I'm looking forward to Jenny
Milchman's next novel.
Barry Ergang © 2014
Some of Derringer Award-winner Barry Ergang's work can be
found at Amazon and at Smashwords. His
website is http://www.writetrack.yolasite.com/.
Thursday, March 07, 2013
Review: "Cover of Snow" by Jenny Milchman
Everything changed for Nora Hamilton that January
morning when she woke up alone. Brendan, her police officer husband, was not in
the bed with her. The normal morning sounds he would have made were not
present. No sounds of the shower, no smell of morning coffee, no nothing as the
strange silence stretched on and on. She will soon discover the silence exists
for a good reason-- the man who made love to her the night before has committed
suicide.
Devastated and distraught, Nora just wants to know
why he did it. The “why” of it threatens to destroy her and makes her question
everything. What drove him to this act--so out of character with no warning at
all--and left her alone in the frozen small town of Wedeskyull in upstate New
York. A frozen old place---literally and metaphorically--- she moved to for Brendan
and where she is very much an outsider. An outsider not to be trusted and who does
not understand her place in the community as well as the fact that things are
the way they are because they have always been that way and will always be that
way. Nora’s quest to get answers to why Brendan killed himself will take time
and come at great cost to nearly everyone.
Cover
of Snow is the debut novel of Jenny Milchman. Like
any good mystery, nothing is what it seems and everyone has secrets to hide. Deceit
is an art form long practiced by all and such is the case here. Nora is
surrounded by smiling and friendly enemies who expect her to go back where she
belongs in the wake of her husband’s death. Her unwillingness to just quietly go
away sets the stage for a steady increasing level of suspense as the reader
turns the pages.
This is a powerfully good book where the setting is
just as alive as the other characters.
What legendary author James Lee Burke has done for Louisiana, author
Jenny Milchman has done for upper New York in winter. The cold frozen landscape
is always present lurking, waiting to kill throughout the suspenseful read. A
living breathing force that is present on every single page where the characters
are inside and warm for the moment or outside in the elements.
Much is at work here in this complicated read. This
review does not give the book justice. You simply have to read it.
Cover of Snow
Jenny
Milchman
Ballantine
Books (Random House)
2013
ISBN#
978-0-345-53421-7
Hardcover
(also currently available as an e-book and audio book)
330
Pages
$26.00
Material supplied by the good folks of the Plano
Texas Public Library System.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2013
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