The Friday 56 - Jan 29

Rules:

• Grab a book, any book.
• Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
• (If you have to improvise, that's ok.)
• Find a snippet, short and sweet.
• Post it and add the url to your post in the Linky on Freda's post. If you don't link up, we may not know to visit.
• Also join in the fun on Instagram using the hashtags #Instagram56 #Friday56

Imagine my glee when I realized I didn't book myself into any reviews for the month of February. Tee-hee!!! So, I decide to open this short cozy up and get started.

Sarah Garland, a retired homicide detective who’s gone through a painful divorce, seems to have found her peace at last, as a coffeeshop owner, in the sleepy (and freezing) small town of Snow Falls, Alaska. What she didn’t expect, was for her past life to catch up with her. Or, for her new life as a mystery writer to inspire a deadly killer to target her.

Yet, when the killer leaves a frightening clue-a creepy snowman, donning a leather jacket and eating a peppermint candy cane, left in front of her cabin-Sarah begins to suspect Conrad Spencer, the new detective in town, who is pursuing a murderer of his own. Soon, it becomes obvious that the sleuths would have to join forces, in order to catch the killer.

Sarah and Conrad must put their tragic pasts behind them and find out who’s after her…before the trail becomes frozen.

"Oh, dear," Amanda said, terrified. Scrambling to her feet, she looked around, saw a broom, grabbed it and then hurried out into the snow to protect her friend. "I'll protect you!" she yelled at Sarah over the screaming wind, holding the broom in her hands like a baseball bat.