BOTM Monday: A Killing Cold

Author: Kate Alice Marshall Title: A Killing Cold Publisher: Flatiron Books Date Published: 02/04/2025

Read Dates: 01/17/2025- 01/19/2025
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫

This was my Book of the Month club pick for January. 

A Killing Cold is a (mostly) single POV thriller about Theo, a young woman meeting her future in-laws for the first time. Theo, who cannot remember life before she was adopted at about 4, is surprised to find a picture of herself as a girl taken at her fiancé's family's remote cabin. Memories long buried begin to surface bit by bit and Theo doesn’t know who to trust, just that her life is in danger!

What a great thriller this was! I loved the story and the huge cast of characters which kept me guessing. Definitely worth the read!

A whirlwind romance.
When Theodora Scott met Connor—wealthy, charming, and a member of the powerful Dalton family—she fell in love in an instant. Six months later, he’s brought her to Idlewood, his family’s isolated winter retreat, to win over his skeptical relatives.

Stay away from Connor Dalton.
Theo has tried to ignore the threatening messages on her phone, but she can’t ignore the footprints in the snow outside the cabin window or the strange sense of familiarity she has about this place. Then, in a disused cabin, Theo finds something impossible: a photo of herself as a child. A photo taken at Idlewood.

I’ve been here before.
Theo has almost no recollection of her earliest years, but now she begins to piece together the fragments of her memories. Someone here has a shocking secret that they will do anything to keep hidden, and Theo is in terrible danger. Because the Daltons do not lose, and discovering what happened at Idlewood may cost Theo everything.