Dead of Winter, Wendy Corsi Staub
Dead of Winter, Wendy Corsi Staub
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Dead of Winter
A Lily Dale Mystery

Author: Wendy Corsi Staub

Narrator: Melanie Ewbank

Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/11/2018

Synopsis

Just as a murderer dumps his corpse into the lake across Valley View in Lily Dale, Bella Jordan happens to be at her window, not quite realizing what she’s seeing. Unbeknownst to her, the killer spots her silhouette and prowls straight to her door. That is, until he’s interrupted by a black cat. A superstitious gambler, he takes off, but Bella’s seen too much, and he vows to return.Jiffy Arden, a neighborhood kid looking for the black cat and stumbling across the killer, begins to have premonitions of being kidnapped during the season’s first snowstorm. Sure enough, when it strikes, he vanishes, never arriving home from the bus stop. While her son, Max, believes Jiffy has been kidnapped, Bella is convinced he’s just wandered off as he typically does … until a body shows up in the lake.Now everyone is pulling out all the stops to find the missing child, identify the victim, and collar the killer. And fast, because he’s coming for Bella next in Dead of Winter.

About Wendy Corsi Staub

Wendy Corsi Staub is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than seventy-five novels. Renowned for her tales of suspense, she has twice been nominated for the Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award and is the recipient of the prestigious Rita Award, as well as numerous other awards.

About Melanie Ewbank

Melanie Ewbank has performed in numerous film and regional theater productions. She also appeared on the Lifetime television series Strong Medicine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carrie

Bella Jordan just happened by her window in her home, Valley View in Lily Dale, when a murderer was dumping a corpse in the remote lake close by. The killer spotted Bella and thinking he had been seen he heads straight to her door when he comes across a young boy chasing a black cat through the neig......more

Goodreads review by Linda

Lily Dale is a small community, unique in that most of the residents are psychics and mediums who all have such quirky personalities. Bella Jordan happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ... she hears a man's dying scream and then she sees his body floating in from the lake when he was dum......more

Goodreads review by Moshi

I borrowed this because of the winter themed and went in unknowingly that it’s the third of a series. I might have missed the characters and friendship development in the first 2 books and ended up bored and lost in this story. Even though it is set in a town full of mediums and psychics I felt that......more

Goodreads review by Linda

For those of you who have never been to Lily Dale; this series captures some of the calmness and the quirkiness of the tiny gated community; the murders, not so much. So, make Lily Dale a destination! What the author portrays as winter weather in Western New York can only be portrayed by a true West......more

Goodreads review by Kristina

Dead of Winter by Wendy Corsi Staub is the third book in A Lily Dale Mystery series. The night before Bella Jordan heard a scream out on the lake and the next morning she discovers a dead body wrapped in a tarp on the shore. Then Max’s friend, Jiffy Arden (who manages to lose his belonging on a rout......more

Quotes

“A spectacular whodunit.” New York Journal of Books

“Entertaining…The endearing town, its quirky psychic medium residents, and a hint of romance…carry through to a suspenseful ending.” Publishers Weekly

“Melanie Ewbank’s narration is mainly through Bella’s perspective, which is relatable and grounded in comparison to the quirky characters who otherwise inhabit the spiritually centered town of Lily Dale. The secondary characters are often narrated in a wry tone that adds to the humor even when the characters don’t quite realize how funny they are…Yet Ewbank avoids stereotypical readings of characters, with the hilarious exception of a shrill-yet-posh British accent for a larger-than-life medium named Pandora. Ewbank also doesn’t shy away from earnest emotion during the more dramatic moments.” Booklist (audio review)

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