Winter's Gifts
ISBN: 9781473224377
Description
When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an 'X-Ray Sierra India' incident, the operator doesn't understand. He tells them to pass it up the chain till someone does. That person is FBI Special Agent Kimberley Reynolds. Leaving Quantico for snowbound Northern Wisconsin, she finds that a tornado has flattened half the town - and there's no sign of Henderson. Things soon go from weird to worse, as neighbours report unsettling sightings, key evidence goes missing, and the snow keeps rising - cutting off the town, with no way in or out. Something terrible is awakening. As the clues lead to the coldest of cold cases - a cursed expedition into the frozen wilderness - Reynolds follows a trail from the start of the American nightmare, to the horror that still lives on today.
Reviewed on 16th July 2023
For a novella, this feels suspiciously long. It’s not as big as Aaronovitch’s full-length novels in this series, but with 200 densely printed pages, I’ve certainly read shorter novels by other authors.
This time out we follow Reynolds, the American FBI agent who investigates magic-related occurrences, as she’s sent to look into a weird telephone summons from a former colleague.
The story does a great job of expanding the world and seeing more about how yet another country deals with things (after the UK in the main series, and Germany in a previous novella).
It’s also a really high-energy little story that keeps up the pace and action throughout.
