‘The Girls In The Snow’ by Stacy Green is a brand new series featuring Special Agent Nikki Hunt, who returns to her home town of Saltwater, after two decades.
The bodies of two girls have been discovered and the police think they already know the perpetrator, a known serial killer, but Nikki is not as definite. She thinks these murders are not connected to the man she has been attempting to hunt down for years, but someone else.
Nikki has avoided returning before because both her parents were murdered twenty years ago, by Mark Todd, a man that was found in her parents bedroom covered in blood and his prints on the weapon. Now the residents of the town are demanding a judicial review due to new facts coming to light on the case. This makes Nikki question everything she knows of the case.
The story is told from Nikki’s point of view so we really get to know her and her personality in this first outing. She is thorough in her work and this shows with her self-doubt on the case of her parents. I personally enjoyed this particular strand of the story as it shows her as a real human being and not just ‘special agent’.
A gripping, twisty and engrossing read that I read in two sittings. Both strands of the story were as compelling as each other for me. The team with Nikki work well together and have that chemistry that you know is going to get even better as the series progresses. Nikki herself is a woman that doesn’t stop until she gets justice and to do that she is a strong resilient woman that made me root for her right from the start.
I do love the start of a new series and can only look forward to Stacy Green writing the second soon.
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