Kate Alice Marshall is the queen of spinning a web of untrustworthy characters and untangling the past and present into a beautiful story. I’m definitely a fan of her thrillers, and this one did not disappoint. There were some unexpected revelations at the end, and I was pleased with how the story wrapped up.

Thank you Kate Alice Marshall, Macmillan Audio, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this audiobook! The sound quality was great. As always the narrator, Karissa Vacker, did an excellent job bringing the characters to life. There are a lot of characters and some flashback scenes and she made it seamless to follow along.

Thank you netgalley for the ALC. I have really enjoyed the other Kate Alice Marshall books I've read. This one wasn't my favourite but it definitely was still enjoyable enough to finish. The mystery felt a little bit lackluster at times. But I did love her fiance and his role in this book.

A Killing Cold is an absolutely unputdownable thrilling ride. It is filled with secrets, lies, twists and turns that left me absolutely shocked. I truly enjoyed the storyline, the writing gripped me straight away, the unfolding was perfect, dropping little bombs here and there to keep me on the edge of my seat throughout. An intricate plot that was developed to perfection.

The characters were really fun, some highly unlikeable, some untrustworthy or are they? I loved the back and forth the author had me on. The setting was an absolute banger, the isolated winter retreats, it made for such an even more chilling read. There was a constant sense of danger, a constant build of suspense. Yes you might have to suspend a little disbelief in regards to certain events and explanations, but I truly loved it even though!

An amazing chilling, thrilling ride. I really enjoyed every second of this one which kept me on high alert from start to finish until the mind blowing conclusion.

🎧 The narration by Karissa Vacker was nothing short of perfection. She is truly a masterful narrator. She delivered on every single aspect. Every single emotion was felt, she built the suspense expertly and truly brought the story to life. I highly feel like it definitely enhanced my enjoyment of this book to have listened to her! Great performance!

✨️Thank you to @netgalley, @macmillanaudio & @katealicemarshall for my gifted ALC in exchange for an honest review.

Kate Alice Marshall writes it know imma love it.

I have been eating up her adult thrillers and this one I think is the best. (Could be that it’s the freshest in my mind) all are great.
In this one the Fmc doesn’t know her birth parents and is no contact with her adoptive parents and is hoping to make a good impression with her fiancés over rich family.

Murder mystery, family drama, twisty and fast paced.

Ate.

Thanks to netgalley and Macmillan audio for an alc

Thank you to NetGalley for the advance copy. I really loved this book and the narration was great .Kate Alice Marshall is a must buy offer for me.

Another paranoid and creepy thriller from Kate Alice Marshall that you’re sure to be delighted by is here. A Killing Cold has a great psych thriller setting: a remote snowy mountain with an impossibly wealthy family with lots of dark secrets. The backstory unfolds masterfully and the web of family secrets is revealed and wrapped up. Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for early access to the incredible audiobook narrated by Karissa Vacker. I love everything she narrates and she does this one in her effortless style.

This book was a whirlwind, in a great way!

Theodora is engaged to Conner. She, along with her fiance, is invited to join the wealthy family at their isolated winter retreat. She goes with the intention of winning the family over, but soon realizes they're hiding some family secrets.

Theodora starts receiving threatening messages and can't shake the feeling that she's visited this retreat in the past.

I highly recommend this book ... good luck trying to figure everything out!

First, I want to start off by saying I never. ever miss a book by Ms. Marshall! And for a very good reason. Gripping, enticing and unputdownable! Love all the characters, even the ones we are not supposed to like. The plot, love it all. I did get a liiiiiiitle bit tired of the storyline about halfway but i pushed on through. And the narrators, perfection. Another great one from Marshall.

This was a soild and enjoyable thriller, but like another reviewer said, also kind of predictable. This is an author who I will probably always read when she publishes a new book because I loved her debut novel What Lies in the Woods. But her other two books haven't been as spectacular and admittedly I am comparing this to her first book.

This had a wide cast of characters. Our protagonist Theo is marrying Connor who comes from a wealthy family. She is hiding secrets from her past and being cagey, and naturally that arouses suspicion in Connor's family who wants to make sure she is joining the family for the right reasons. Theo joins Connor and his family in an isolated cabin, where someone appears to be threatening to reveal her secrets.

Thank you netgalley and Macmillan audio for giving me an advanced review copy in exchange for an honest review.

Theo (Theodora) met Connor and fell in love quick. She’s now visiting his family for the first time for a winter retreat. Right before the trip, she got a text telling her to stay away from Connor.

Her past is dark and memory of it is spotty. Yet, she has a nagging feeling that she has been to the winter cabin before. Too much isn’t making sense like the childhood picture of herself she finds, the familiarity of the isolated cabin.

Even though she suspects someone from Connor’s family is sending the texts, she turns a blind eye to her worries because of her love for him. It’s only fair considering she has secrets she’s hiding from him, too.

Okay so this family is something else !! Holding obvious secrets about how their dad died, the weird uncle who swooped in to become “dad”, the brother who hits on his brother’s fiancé.. lots of dysfunction there! I felt this was fast paced and kept my attention as I tried to figure it all out. Loved the narrator as well!

Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ALC in exchange for an honest review. Release date 2/4/2025!

Snowy isolated mountain mysteries always make for decent reading.

When Theodora "Theo" Scott meets Connor Dalton they fall head over heels in love. After a shockingly short romance, they become engaged. Now she's headed to meet the extremely wealthy Dalton family at their isolated Winter retreat where they are scheduled to stay for two weeks. What she finds while there is that this family is hiding more secrets than she could have ever imagined and figuring out what they are is utterly shocking.

The audiobook is narrated by Karissa Vacker who is quickly becoming one of my favorite narrators. Her voice just adds that "something" to the story you feel other narrators are missing sometimes.

This was my second Kate Alice Marshall book and I am definitely adding more of hers to my TBR. This audiobook kept me entertained and questioning what would happen next. Perfect for a night in during the winter months.

Thank you, NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for the opportunity to listen to and enjoy this audiobook before its release on February 4, 2025. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Thanks to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for early access to A Killing Cold by Kate Alice Marshall and narrated by Karissa Vacker.
Theo and Connor are engaged, after just a short time dating, and Connor brings Theo to stay at his family's resort. His family is not the most welcoming, as they question why the couple is getting married, especially so quickly. Theo is hiding things, but it may not be what Connor's family thinks. And there are more secrets, considering Theo is receiving text messages from an unknown number telling her to stay away from the family. And little by little Theo begins to realize she has been to the resort before, as deep seeded memories start to be brought to the surface. Why is so much being hidden, and why? And should Theo have stayed away?
Let me just say that I am happy to listen to ANYTHING Karissa Vacker narrates, and I listened to this one in under 24 hours. I tried to make myself stop and enjoy the journey, but I just had to go back and find out what happened! Marshall wrote a thrilling story, and Vacker's narration makes it even more compelling. I can't recommend this one enough!

This book is a thriller that I found enjoyable, but not all that surprising. I felt the twists and turns were a bit lackluster and I felt the setting could have been utilized more to the writers advantage. That being said, I enjoyed the pacing of this story and the back and forth storylines. While I'm only rating this 3 stars, I think people who enjoy mystery stories will enjoy this one.

I was very excited to be able to review a Killing Cold by Kate Alice Marshall. I especially liked her novel, What Lies in the Woods. A girl, now a young woman, has no memory of her early life, except for some clues that she gets in nightmares that have her wake up screaming. When she is invited to her fiance's family's campground in the woods, everything seems too familiar and at least one person knows who she really is. This audiobook was very suspenseful and I especially enjoyed the narrator.

3.5 stars, rounded up 🌟

First of all, I loved that this book took place in the winter/somewhat holiday season. Great timing. I also went into this book knowing absolutely nothing!!! It's hard to do, especially when you're super critical and don't want to waste time reading something you don't end up liking. An early shoutout to Netgalley as the surprise invitation helped keep that mystery alive. I hadn't even read the blurb, but I was hopeful after reading another novel by this author. I did end up liking this book, though I also had some notes...

- Great element of suspense in the beginning. We were thrown into the beginning and got to learn about the characters as we went. There was no need for heavy early backstory as it unfolded when it needed to instead. The premise can be overdone, but fiancée with a mysterious past meeting mysterious and sketchy fiancé's family still felt relatively fresh within this story.

- The suspense carried through as my interest continued throughout the story.

- Characters were good as you never really knew who to trust. Even right up to the end.

- Most twists were good, but I also found there were too many! Especially since many of the recovered memories seemed <i>too</i> convenient at certain plot points. And that some of them were "wrong" before, but then later became more accurate... that was hard to believe at times. It was also the main reason I couldn't actually rate it 4 stars.

Overall, it was an enjoyable story with good suspense. The action kept it moving along at a nice pace. I appreciated the winter landscape and double mystery coming together. Some eyerolling moments but otherwise nicely performed as an audiobook.

Shoutout to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for early digital access to this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

I thoroughly enjoyed this twisty thriller, where every revelation leaves you questioning who to trust. Theo’s journey to uncover the truth about her past and the Daltons’ dark secrets kept me hooked until the chilling conclusion. Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this ARC.

Thank you to NetGalley, the audio house , narrator and author for the amazing opportunity to listen to a complimentary copy of this audio book.

Theo is in love, but before she and Connor can get married she has to be approved and accepted by his family, but most of all, Louise the grand matriarch. Theo is nervous but Connor assures her they will love her as much as he does.

Theo isn’t so sure they will accept her, as someone texted her telling her to stay away from Connor Dalton. When they arrive at Idlewood, the family’s mansion on an isolated mountainside she is nervous. When she meets the family, things start to go from bad to worse, someone is trying to make her leave and she is sure Louise hates her. But most importantly the feeling that she has been there before is terrifying. As Theo tries to figure out what is going on and who she can trust, the twists just keep on coming. I thought I had guessed the events many time and was wrong most of them. Great book!

This was a great listen! The narrator was excellent, great cadence and inflection. I look forward to more books by this author.

Thank you Netgalley & Macmillan Audio for an ALC of A Killing Cold by Kate Alice Marshall. What a great book to become immersed on on the week of Christmas. A true wintry novel, Marshall’s writing lets you feel like you’re with the Dalton family.

Theo is engaged to Connor Dalton, son and member of the powerful Dalton family. They are getting together at their retreat for Christina’s. When she arrives, though, it doesn’t feel like the first time. Why does it feel like she’s been there before? Not only that, but Theo’s been receiving messages to her phone telling her to stay away from Connor. Are those messages a warning, or a threat?

I liked the direction this one took - It wasn’t predictable. Great narration and will recommend!

Kate Alice Marshall's "A Killing Cold" is a gripping thriller that blends elements of mystery, suspense, and the supernatural. Set in a remote Alaskan village, the story follows a young woman who returns home after years away, only to find herself embroiled in a chilling murder investigation.

Is there anything us "common people" love more than a story of rich people behaving badly? Such is the case in "A Killing Cold," a high-paced thriller where Theordora Scott (Theo for short) gradually unearths the dark secrets that have long been hidden by the Dalton family. And it's clear that Theo, too, has secrets herself. Which tragic history will be the darkest, and which secret the most damaging?

When Theo arrives at the Dalton winter residence on the arm of her new fiance, Connor Dalton, the wealthy family is immediately suspicious of Theo's motives in marrying their beloved son. Theo, however, is distracted from their suspicions by her own growing unease; the winter resort they are staying at is starting to feel uncomfortably familiar. Could this resort be part of unlocking the early childhood trauma she has mentally walled off?

I loved the high tension and atmospheric feel of this winter thriller. Enough people behave badly in the book that you can spend a good chunk of time questioning just about everyone's movites. The audiobook was well produced with strong narration by Karissa Vacker. Thank you to NetGalley, Macmillan Audio, and Katie Alice Marshall for an advance copy for honest review. A perfect book to cozy up with during winter break!