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<\/a>First up, of course, Jo Nesbo’s creepy The Snowman<\/em> (2010), finds Inspector Harry Hole chasing down someone who buries bodies inside snowmen.\u00a0 You may never, ever look at a snowman the same way again.\u00a0 Ignore the bad movie – pick up this great read and be completely immersed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A list of snowy mysteries to help you enjoy the winter…. First up, of course, Jo Nesbo’s creepy The Snowman (2010), finds Inspector Harry Hole chasing down someone who buries bodies inside snowmen.\u00a0 You may never, ever look at a snowman the same way again.\u00a0 Ignore the bad movie – pick up this great read … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[282,283,32,41,50,62,281,178,286,284,263,285,176],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","tag-camilla-lackburg","tag-christopher-fowler","tag-colorado","tag-emily-littlejohn","tag-iceland","tag-jill-mcgown","tag-jo-nesbo","tag-minnesota","tag-northern-michigan","tag-ragnor-jonasson","tag-steve-hamilton","tag-sweden","tag-william-kent-krueger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3508,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> Camilla Lackburg’s\u00a0The Ice Princess<\/em> (2008) finds writer Erica returning to her tiny Swedish hometown when a friend is found dead and frozen in his bathtub, wrists slashed.\u00a0 To process what has happened, she begins a memoir, and finds herself solving a crime.\u00a0 Atmospheric, full of well drawn characters, and yes, creepy as all heck.<\/p>\n<\/a>Snowblind <\/em>(2015), Icelandic author Ragnor Jonasson’s first entry in his series about Detective Ari Thor.\u00a0 Ari must suffer through a long, claustrophic Icelandic winter in his first posting in Northern Iceland, which, as it happens, is full of corpses.\u00a0 Jonasson combines a traditional whodunnit format with modern psychological creepiness, and keeps it short.\u00a0 This is a wonderful debut to a really great series.<\/p>\n<\/a>The Winter of the Wolf Moon\u00a0<\/em>(2000), Steve Hamilton’s stunning sophomore effort, finds reluctant P.I. Alex McKnight dealing with hockey goons, Russians, and a memorable scene in an ice fishing hut.\u00a0 Hamilton’s combination of wit, great plotting and pacing makes this series (and this book) a real standout.<\/p>\n<\/a>William Kent Krueger’s debut\u00a0Iron Lake\u00a0<\/em>(1998) opens in a snowstorm and finds recently separated Cork O’Connor solving a case that may or may not have something to do with a Windigo, a native American myth, whereby a human becomes one after his or her spirit is corrupted by greed or weakened by extreme conditions, such as hunger and cold.\u00a0 Tight plotting, a well delineated Northern Minnesota setting and wonderful and memorable characters make this one of the greatest debuts in recent(ish) crime fiction.<\/p>\n<\/a>Emily Littlejohn’s brilliantly plotted\u00a0A Season to Lie<\/em> (2017), finds Detective Gemma Monroe discovering a corpse inside – yes – a snowman on the grounds of a private school in her tiny Colorado town.\u00a0 Littlejohn combines excellent police procedural stories with atmosphere, character, and lovely prose to generate haunting and memorable reads.\u00a0 One of my favorite recent reading discoveries.<\/p>\n<\/a>The brilliant, short lived Jill McGown was always tweaking the genre, and with\u00a0Murder at the Old Vicarage\u00a0<\/em>(1988), the second in her stellar Lloyd and Hill series, she takes on Christie, finding new and creepy life in a snowbound vicarage where an apparent open and shut case takes on complexity and depth.\u00a0 One of the greatest of modern plotters, this police series should be savored and enjoyed by all who revere the British police novel.\u00a0 McGown, as an aside, studied Latin with Colin Dexter.<\/p>\n<\/a>Lastly, I can’t leave out one of my favorite locked room scenarios in one of my favorite mysteries by the brilliant Christopher Fowler, White Corridor\u00a0<\/em>(2007).\u00a0 Peculiar Crime Unit’s Bryant and May are stuck in a snowstorm, in a van, on the way to a convention of psychics, and must solve, remotely, a murder that took place inside a locked autopsy suite.\u00a0 Witty, intelligent, brilliant – these are great books and this book in particular is especially memorable.\u00a0 These books sound fey, but are not, and Fowler is such a master you are in his wonderful hands for a spectacular reading journey.<\/p>\n