GREAT story with so many twists and turns! Really emoted the slow progression of getting to know Theo and how everything goes together in the end! Highly recommend as a fun suspense thriller you will never see coming!

Another great book by this author! Loved it and enjoyed listening to the audio version as well. Great story that had me hooked!

This was a perfect atmospheric read for the dead of winter (no pun intended!). It's set in a set of family cabins in the middle of nowhere in the mountains. This was excellent on audio - the narration keept me very engaged and I had a hard time breaking away. I figured out bits and pieces of the story, but not every single element. The parts I didn't know, I barely had a guess about and had to fully wait for the big reveals. The ending left me partly satisfied, but partly disappointed otherwise I think this could have been a 5 star book for me.

A huge thank you to the author and the publisher for providing an e-ARC via Netgalley. This does not affect my opinion regarding the book.

I liked the pacing of the book and the multiple red herrings. This kept my interest til the end, the ending wasn't my favorite.

Unfortunately, I just found this derivative... or, as the kids would say, “mid”. While it was an enjoyable read, and I looked forward to listening to it (the audio was good), it was just a whatever book. It feels like I’ve heard various aspects of this book over and over in other thrillers, and to have to believe them all in this one... when they were all happening concurrently? Eh. Here are some tropes that come into play here... memory loss (with it all coming back at just the right time) and rich people without consciences, and several last two chapters twists. It just felt... passable. Wish I could say more.

Some “If you liked” style comparisons: The Family Game by Catherine Steadman - Just think rich people being rich and doing bad things...

I read this book by audiobook.
I really liked the story. Lots of good back story, plenty of twists. Likable main character.
The only thing I didn't like was the amount of twists at the end. It felt a little messy in a confusing way. Though it did make the twists harder to figure out.
Overall I'd rate this book as a solid 4 stars.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this ARC

SOOOO suspenseful and TWISTY! I love Kate Alice Marshall and she did not disappoint with this thrilling read! Full of TWISTS and TURNS that I could kinda see coming, but then BAMN! Theo meets Collins family on their HUGE estate for the first time. She doesn't really get a very warm welcome, but stays the course anyway, for love. Theo, a woman with no childhood memories and no sense of where she comes from, who has named herself after a coveted teddybear, the only thing she has from her blank past, begins to have deja-vu moments and believes she's experiencing memories. Are these memories real? Why now?

You will love this TWISTY thriller!

Kate Alice Marshall's A KILLING COLD is a thriller perfect for those who enjoy a pervasively creepy, ominous, psychological suspense story. Theodora (Theo) Scott is engaged to Connor Dalton and is about to meet his wealthy and dysfunctional family. A message on her phone before the trip: Stay away from Connor.

A KILLING COLD is a rollercoaster of a story, a high-tension ride with plenty of twists and a constant sense of danger. The narrative builds a sense of impending doom, with each page heightening the tension and the feeling that something sinister lurks just out of sight. The intricacies of the plot keep you guessing, and the satisfying conclusion leaves you wanting more.

Karissa Vacker, the audiobook's narrator, delivered a captivating performance. He brought Theo to life in a way that felt authentic and relatable and transported listeners to the heart of her story.

I sincerely thank NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for a copy of the audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

A Killing Cold by Kate Alice Marshall unfortunately didn't quite hold up to her previous thrillers in terms of quality. While Marshall's writing remains strong and she is great at setting atmosphere (who doesn't love an isolated winter mountain for a thiller?), the plot felt slightly uninspired and there wasn't the intrigue I needed to want to finish the book. I really had to push to get to the end of this. On top of the lack of intrigue, there were simply too many characters. Two of the male characters I kept getting mixed up, which made the ending reveal not hit like it may have otherwise. I think some of the characters just felt too similar to distinguish from each other.

I look forward to Marshall's next novel.

C: 4
A: 3
W: 5
P: 3
I: 4
L: 3
E: 2
2 stars (1.75)

Before I say anything, this is solely my opinion, and you should read the book for yourself. I felt like I wasted my time because when you think about the story in its entirety, not much happened. Like other reviewers exclaimed, I was also in the mood for a winter thriller during February, and Marshall delivered said book just in time. I had similar issues with her last novel, "No One Can Know," which felt bland, and all of the twists were predictable AND unbelievable (I didn't think that was possible). Maybe this author's work is just not for me, so judge the work for yourself, and if you love it, that's great! I don't think I will ever love her books (and I tried).

The amount of twists on "whodunit" at the end was ridiculous. What's even wilder was I could guess that the author would do that because there was so much inaction going on throughout a story that is supposed to be "thrilling and suspenseful." I don't remember any of the characters being remotely likable; our protagonist's choices were simply daft, and towards the last 30-40 pages, I was ready to read something else. It's annoying to feel annoyed while reading a book, and I came so far that I couldn't just DNF it at that point.

This book was like zebra fruit stripe gum to me; I feel like I don't have to delve into that further.

I do love this author so much, but nothing will beat how I felt reading What Lies In the Woods.

This one was good! Perfect for the snowy weather we’ve been having in Chicago and a good binge but also got a bit too much in the end. The twist/killer was once again very predictable and I had zero shock value which is the main thing that was missing for me from this book.

Overall the setting was great and the drama was even better. Definitely recommend!

Putting it out there that this isn’t spicy per se, but definitely includes sexually charged scenes, so just a heads up!

A Killing Cold was a fantastic audiobook! I have never read nor listened to a Kate Alice Marshall book and it did not dissapoint, I am ready looking to read her other ones!

Theodora Scott goes with her new wealthy fiancee to his family's secluded home in the snowy wildnerness where she begins to uncover hard and confusing truths about her past and the connection to her fiancee's family.

The narrator was perfect, great at the voices and nice to listen to!

Kate Alice Marshall's books are always a solid four star read for me and here, I think it would be 4.25. It has been a long while since I have read what is essentially a locked room mystery but with parts of it outside. I am not a big fan of locked room mysteries, I think because psychologically, I feel like they are too limited in terms of setting. Here, the characters are all on an estate, for a large family event, and the protagonist was brought by her fiance but she soon figures out something sinister is going on. She has her own problems, including her troubled past of being adopted by people that are not nice and not being able to remember her early life at all. But as she is here, with people who have their own secrets but don't feel that she is good enough for their son, she starts to remember things. As Celine Dion says, it is all coming back to me not.
The hard part is that the mystery and all of the details here strain common sense and one has to suspend disbelief, but then again, that is true in most mysteries, whether in book or movie form.
The main thing is that there was a mystery that kept me reading and I stayed up way too late last night to find out what happened. You will too.
I read parts of it and also listened to the narrator, who I have heard before on other books. Her voice was well suited to the book. Thanks to NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for providing me with the opportunity to listen to this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

Theodora (Theo) and her fiancé, Connor, visit his family’s retreat so she can meet her future in-laws. While snowed in, Theo has flashbacks to her childhood that makes her question her past. She feels that the family is sending mixed messages and does not feel welcome. There is something familiar about this place but she doesn’t know why. Theo also questions why Connor, sought after her when they first met. This is a great mystery with some chilling moments as Theo’s flashbacks dredge up long buried memories of her family.

I really want to like an adult thriller from Kate Alice Marshall but i can’t seem to find one that works as well as her YA works for me 🤷🏻‍♀️ some things right off the bat that don’t work for me is the most unbelievable coincidence that leads to the relationship (& let’s face it plot). That was strike one for me. Then, there’s so many characters that I just couldn’t keep up with who was who, who was bad, who was okay? And they all felt the same so it was hard to care who was actually the bad guy. And the last straw for me? The I can’t remember my past turns into I remember everything. Nope. Not for me! That’s one of my least favorite tropes!

I’m sure this is just a me problem so maybe you’ll enjoy if you like:

-wintery vibes, isolated area, rich family
-a full cast of unlikable characters
-being along for the ride

I’m not sure if I’ll pick up another adult thriller by KAM in the future but I’ll be keeping my eyes on her to see what she does next!

A whirlwind romance between a wealthy man and a not so wealthy woman leads to him inviting her to the family cabins to meet the family. While there she is struck by a feeling of deja vu. Of feeling like she had been there before. And his family? Well most are welcoming but some are just creepy or downright rude. As memories come flooding back she has to determine if she was lured up here or if her fiancé really has no clue as to her real identity.

Fast paced this family has a lot of secrets and some strange things going on. Set in a remote camp with multiple family cabins and no cell service or wifi you aren't sure who to trust, who is hiding what and where this will all lead.

I've read books like this before and the who premise felt very a little too familiar but it was a good listen. I think I started to have deja vu feelings while listening to it. It had just the right level of suspense and believability to keep me listening and the narration was excellent. A great read for a cold blustery night.

I loved this book! It was twisty and I loved the family drama aspect to it. The narrator was fantastic and I am definitely going to be listening to more books from this author!

My NetGalley shelf app wasn’t working right so i had to uninstall it and I lost all my saved audiobooks so I didn’t get to listen to it before it was archived :( I’m so irritated with my app such a bummer UGH! but I’m gonna buy the book because I’ve only heard great things about this one!

I have enjoyed Kate Alice Marshall’s previous thrillers but her most recent, A Killing Cold, is far and away her best. Lucky me, I was gifted an audiobook of it by @macmillan.audio and @netgalley and it was so well done that it added immensely to my enjoyment.

This book has everything you could want in a thriller. A new fiancée, harboring secrets from her past, a remote mountain estate, a wealthy family (they have secrets too) a snowstorm and a murder, all the elements are present for an enjoyable whodunnit.

This book checked all the boxes for what I love in a thriller. A great setting- the remoteness of the estate creates a locked room mystery and the sense of isolation and suffocation was palpable. Almost everyone is hiding some kind of secret and this makes for some great twists and turns and I was kept deliciously off balance for where it would go next. There is nothing groundbreaking here, but it plays with all the usual tropes and orchestrates them all with great precision.

I’m so happy I listened to this one on audio. I binged it in a day because it was so well done. Karissa Vacker is the narrator and her performance is one of the best I’ve listened to in a while. She does an excellent job of bringing the characters to life and creating a sense of pathos and suspense that made it unable to turn this one off. A day very well spent!

This is one of those stories when you can just sense the tension from the start and you know trouble is brewing. The set up of Theo meeting her fiance's rich family for the first time in a secluded mountain retreat for two weeks in the dead of winter just screams "turn around and get out now" before she's even gotten out of the car. Someone is hiding something, enough that they will kill to keep it a secret. Theo is keeping secrets of her own. After receiving threatening texts from an unknown number telling her to leave Connor, she still shows up and is completely on edge because everyone is a suspect to her. Family secrets start to become uncovered and somehow she could be involved.
Listening to this story added to the suspense. Worse than not being able to put the phone down, I had to listen at any chance I could. Multitasking at it's best.