*** 4,25 stars ***
PJ Tracy blijft een van mijn favoriete auteurs, Monkeewrench een van mijn favoriete series!
Na de eerste pagina zit je gewoon helemaal mee in het verhaal. Vlot geschreven, spanning, onverwachte wendingen, echte pageturner. Alles was ook in dit boek weer aanwezig zoals ik dat van PJ Tracy gewend ben! Een aanrader!

Snow Blind has a very different feel than the first three Monkeewrench mysteries. Although different, I liked it just as much as the previous three.

Because Snow Blind is so different, I am hesitant to mention much about it. Like the others, there is a new couple of characters. For reasons that escape me, Iris Rikker, an English teacher, finds herself working as a telephone operator at a far north Minnesota police department. For reasons I will not share here, she decides to run for Sheriff and wins. For the most part and for obvious reasons, the police department is not fully behind the English teacher Sheriff. The other new character is a detective lieutenant Sampson.

There is a review here that gives this book only one star, partially for the same reason I gave it five.

Unlike so many books of this genera, it challenges the reader to considerable introspection; at least is did me. I recommend this book very highly.

Loved it! Can't wait until the next one comes out (supposedly this fall).

Very gripping up until the end, but the end felt a little unfinished and the case was only “maybe solved” so that was unsatisfying.

Several years ago I stumbled on a book called MonkeeWrench because I had one more book to order from the Mystery Guild before I could cancel my membership. Prior to that, I was not necessarily impressed with the book club. MonkeeWrench made me keep my membership for years.

I liked Snow Blind as much as I liked MonkeeWrench. I went so far as to post two perfect pages (the beginning of chapter 9, pages 75-76) in a facebook note (properly attributed, of course).

After being disappointed with the previous book, this book was much better. It is cold and snowing in Minn, something that doesn't end for weeks at a time. Gino and his partner are called to a strange crime scene location, there are dead bodies being found in snowmen. As they track the killers of this crime, we are introduced to a new character, Sheriff Ricker. She is inexperienced and only on the job day one when she has a snowman of her own. As they work the clues on foot, with Monkeewrench running data and working websites for more clues, this is a fast paced novel. When you get to the end and all the pieces come together, it works. There are no red herrings, no clues that don't fit, just a solid mystery.

I was gripped, waiting for the shock ending which didn't disappoint