Book Review: Ghosts in the Snow

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

Ghosts in the Snow     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Tamara Siler Jones
Class/Genre:   Fantasy
Bantam, Nov 2004, $6.99, 488 pp.

Dubric Byerly is used to eating alone as everyone keeps as far away from him as possible. The Castellan of Faldorahh is worried because someone is killing young women leaving no clues behind. Having solved homicides before with help from his ability to work with ghostly victims, Dubric is very concerned as part of his responsibility is safety and security in Lord Brushgar’s Desmesne, and he getting nowhere while the murders are turning increasingly brutal.

Still Dubric has a prime suspect as he struggles to find clues. However, suspecting someone is not enough especially since this someone is connected and an accusation without 100% proof could lead to civil war. Worse he sees the bloody specters who look at him to gain peace, but instead are driving Dubric over the edge into insanity. He is racing the clock of his mind in a helpless cause to uncover an invisible vicious killer.

GHOSTS IN THE SNOW is a fabulous blending of the paranormal inside a medieval like murder investigation. Dubric is a terrific protagonist who is cursed by his ability to see the dead; still he makes the most of his skill to try to solve violent crimes. The who-done-it is cleverly designed keeping the audience wondering along with the hero what is going on and how. Tamara Siler Jones writes a terrific supernatural mystery that places Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden inside Peter Tremayne’s Sister Fidelma’s world.

Harriet Klausner

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