Book 127 of 2006 was Chill Factor by Sandra Brown. WARNING: This review contains plot spoilers.
Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town — the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Not so, lately. Four women have disappeared from Cleary over the past two years. And there’s always a blue ribbon left near the spot where each of the women was last seen. There are no bodies, no other clues, and no suspicion as to who their abductor might be. And now, another woman has disappeared without a trace.
It is to this backdrop that Lilly Martin returns to close the sale of her mountain cabin, marking the end of her turbulent eight-year marriage to Dutch Burton, Cleary’s chief of police. Dutch’s reluctance to let her go isn’t Lilly’s only obstacle. As she’s trying to outrun a snowstorm, her car skids on the icy road and strikes a man. She recognizes the injured man as Ben Tierney, whom she’d met the previous summer. They’re forced to wait out the storm in the cabin, but as the hours of their confinement mount, Lilly begins to wonder if the greatest danger to her safety isn’t the blizzard outside, but the mysterious man right beside her. Is Ben Tierney the feared abductor? Or is he who he claims to be…her rescuer from harm and from the tragedy that haunts her?
I read, and read until I finished this book, I just loved it! I really enjoyed the characters and am always impressed at how Sandra Brown brings such depth to them. I loved the story, and the setting. It was well written, with tons of suspense, mystery, and just the right amount of romance. I was a little shocked as to who the killer turned out to be, I was suspecting it to be someone else; not Tierney. I really enjoyed the love story between Tierney and Lilly, but I also liked the chemistry between Marilee and Scott, as well. I think they really cared about one another and I thought there should have been a little happier ending for them. I guess not everyone can have a happy ending, that would not be realistic. It was sad that Scott had to almost cripple himself in order to be free from his controlling father. I was also a little surprised that Dutch lost it, the way he did in the end. I don’t think he was a bad guy, he just never got over the death of his daughter, and his life went downhill from there. I was pleased with the ending, and am glad Tierney and Lilly were given second chance at being parents. Loved this book.
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