Snow Creek Blog Tour: Author Guest Post, Review + Giveaway

Snow Creek
Author: Gregg Olsen
Publication Date: November 18, 2019
Publisher: Bookouture
Print Length: 268 pages

Description:

Footprints were scattered about like fallen leaves. She looked down into the ravine, and once more her lungs filled with fear. A body, blackened and motionless lay splayed out in the bushes.

Detective Megan Carpenter is no stranger to evil. Escaping the horrors of her old life, she’s vowed never to let anyone hurt her or those she loves ever again. Joining the small police force in Jefferson County’s Port Townsend, Megan is determined to get every victim of a crime the justice they deserve.

So when Ruth Turner walks into the Sheriff’s office claiming her sister Ida Watson has been missing for over a month, Megan’s instincts tell her that she needs to do more than just file a report.

Arriving at a secluded farmhouse in the hills above Snow Creek, she finds Ida’s teenage children alone and frightened.

Then a few days later, close to the Watsons’ home, the blackened body of a woman is discovered in an abandoned pickup truck.

Megan must unravel the disturbing secrets of the isolated Snow Creek community if she is to catch the killer.

But Megan has dark secrets of her own too…

Hidden in the back of her closet is a box of tapes containing every single recording of her therapy sessions with Doctor Albright over thirteen years ago. As Megan begins to play the tapes, she’s taken straight back to her terrifying childhood, back to the time she was a kid called Rylee, fighting to survive.

Can Megan finally confront the past she’s spent years trying to block out and will listening to her own painful story help her solve the complex case she is now entangled in?

From the Number One New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author, comes an absolutely heart-stopping and completely unputdownable crime series, introducing Detective Megan Carpenter.
 
Praise for GREGG OLSEN'S NOVELS:

“Gregg Olsen's Envy is a riveting page-turner that I could not put down. Like Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why, Envyexplores a serious topic--cyberbullying--in a fantastic, well-crafted story. Can't wait for the next Empty Coffinnovel!” ―Nancy Holder, New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked saga, Dear Bully contributor

“Gregg Olsen's Envy offers an interesting view on the devastating effects bullying can have, not only on the individuals involved from both sides, but on the community at large.” ―Bree Despain, author of The Dark Divine trilogy

"Sure to spice up your reading repertoire!" ―GirlsLife.com

"Olsen's characters jump to life and his plots are so intricate you never see the killer coming….a definite hit!" ―RT Book Reviews

“Dark and addictive…” ―Jordan Dane, critically acclaimed author of In the Arms of Stone Angels

“Olsen writes with authority, drawing inspiration from actual headlines and crime…” ―Publishers Weekly

"WICKEDLY CLEVER! TWISTED." ―Lisa Gardner

"OLSEN WRITES RAPID-FIRE PAGE-TURNERS." ―The Seattle Times

"GRABS YOU BY THE THROAT." ―Kay Hooper

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Ten Random Things About Me

1. I have blue eyes and one is part brown.

2. I’ve been to prison. For interviews!

3. I wrote my first mystery at 12.

4. I always choose lemon over chocolate desserts.

5. I’m a night owl.

6. My drink is a four-olive, dirty martini.

7. I’m a huge Kelly Clarkson fan.

8. I drink coffee throughout the day (maybe that’s why I’m a night owl!)

9. I cry in my sleep.

10. I have twin daughters.

Snow Creek is another thrilling mystery that fans of the author and the genre are going to love. I've read some of the author's other books and I've really enjoyed them. This was no exception. I liked every aspect of the book - from the setting to the characters and the plot. The author has an incredible way of bringing the character's world to life for the reader. He uses amazing attention to detail and vivid imagery to make it feel as if we're right beside the main character throughout the story. 

I really liked the main character of this book - Megan Carpenter. She's complex, realistic, and I could easily identify with her right from the beginning of the story. She has some fantastic traits and qualities - determination, strength, intelligence, and bravery. But like everyone else, she has issues that she's buried that get brought to the surface and she has to deal with throughout the story. It made her all the more real and easy to connect to for me as a character. The plot was intriguing and well written - just like all of the other author's books. There's a tightly wound mystery that needs solved as the stakes get higher and more dangerous at every turn. There's definitely some great twists and turns that I didn't see coming - so it kept me on my toes and reading as quickly as I could to see what was going to happen next. Overall, it's another fantastic mystery/thriller by a very talented author that I would highly recommend to fans of the author, mysteries, thrillers, and also contemporary fiction. 

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Throughout his career, Gregg Olsen has demonstrated an ability to create a detailed narrative that offers readers fascinating insights into the lives of people caught in extraordinary circumstances.

A New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author, Olsen has written nine nonfiction books, nine novels, a novella, and contributed a short story to a collection edited by Lee Child.

The award-winning author has been a guest on dozens of national and local television shows, including educational programs for the History Channel, Learning Channel, and Discovery Channel. He has also appeared on Dateline NBC, William Shatner's Aftermath, Deadly Women on Investigation Discovery, Good Morning America, The Early Show, The Today Show, FOX News, CNN, Anderson Cooper 360, MSNBC, Entertainment Tonight, CBS 48 Hours, Oxygen's Snapped, Court TV's Crier Live, Inside Edition, Extra, Access Hollywood, and A&E's Biography.

In addition to television and radio appearances, he has been featured in Redbook, USA Today, People, Salon magazine, Seattle Times, Los Angeles Times and the New York Post.

The Deep Dark was named Idaho Book of the Year by the ILA and Starvation Heights was honored by Washington's Secretary of State for the book's contribution to Washington state history and culture. His Young Adult novel, Envy, was the official selection of Washington for the National Book Festival.

Olsen, a Seattle native, lives in Olalla, Washington with his wife, twin daughters, three chickens, Milo (an obedience school dropout cocker spaniel) and Suri (a mini dachshund so spoiled she wears a sweater).

        

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