Cheryl R. (Spuddie) - , reviewed on 7/28/2007 + 412 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

#4 in the Monkeewrench gang series, also featuring Minneapolis detectives Magozzi and Rolseth, who actually feature more prominently in this book than the computer-software geeks cum amateur sleuths. Someone's murdering people and then building snowmen around the corpses! And the first two victims are cops, no less. This eventually ties into another murder, another formerly-live snowman, found on a frozen lake up north and Magozzi and Rolseth end up having to traverse many miles in dangerous blizzard/ice conditions to try to make sense of it all.

I really, really like the characters in this series and the authors also do the whole 'Minnesota thing' very well. I find the writing style easy to read and the book overall was hard to put down. I did, however, figure the mystery out in this one way ahead of time so that cut down on the "thriller" part of it, and I was a bit disappointed with the wishy-washy ending. Still--you can't quite go wrong with the Monkeewrench series.

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