Ashley Kalagian Blunt
https://www.ashleykalagianblunt.com
Harlow Close has made a career as an influencer uncovering the secrets of Winnipeg, dubbed ‘North America’s strangest city’. The region is renowned for its sub-zero temperatures, dropping to minus 40 degrees – sometimes for months at a time. Yet, it’s not just the frigid winters and geographic seclusion that render Winnipeg peculiar.
When Harlow’s father mysteriously disappears amid a brutal cold snap, suspicions of foul play arise. It’s not like Scott to miss phone calls – and he’s been even more cautious since that time he was catfished by a romance scammer. Unhappy with the pace of the police investigation, Harlow launches her own search, enlisting her sister Blaise’s reluctant help.
Review:
A chillingly graphic compelling story of two sisters Harlow and Blaise and their race to find their abducted father Scott Close.
Do we really ever know those closest to us.
Harlow is plunged headlong into events about her dad and sister that she finds hard to believe. Blaise doesn’t take things as seriously which infuriates Harlow until the point comes when she questions when she can really trust her sister.
There are amusing moments in the book with Blaise dog adorable Caesar the Pomeranian and strangely between the Tall man and Grizzly, when they lose a body it is like reading the escapades of a Laurel and Hardy double act with deathly intentions.
Both girls vastly different and at loggerheads most of the time.
Harlow, runs a successful walking tour business Secrets of Winnipeg with a large Instagram following but using social media as a platform to try to find her father proves to be far from a blessing, whilst her assistant Willa who could normally take the tours but with a recent injury and wearing a moon boot as left Harlow juggling her business, her sister and the search for her father.
With time running out. Freezing temperatures and relationships at breaking point Harlow is running the gauntlet of emotions.
Winnipeg sounds an inhospitable place to live.
This book is gripping. It’s difficult to put down and I found myself reading this in less than a week something I’ve not done for a while.
