This book proves you don't have to be writing about international spies or crooked lawyers to have great intrigue. A college campus offers plenty of that in the hands of a talented author. Rice provides an engaging and gripping story that keeps you guessing but always plays fair, and a protagnoist that is memorable and dynamic. I found this to be an absolutely enchanting book.

I've been reading Christopher Rice's novels since his excellent "Density of Souls" (2000), and each new novel is something I look forward to. I wasn't disappointed by The Snow Garden: it's well-written, and has an interesting and engaging plot - it's a twisty, suspenseful campus-crime novel. Recommended.

The Snow Garden is such a fantastically written tale. Christopher Rice is truly a gifted writer. I have the original version, and this new "original" ending that the publisher did not originally use. I prefer Rice's and not the one he changed it to. The mystery, suspense, and darkness of this novel makes for a compelling read! *****FIVE STARS*****

This was the first read for me by this author and I must say that I was thrilled how this book read . Its about a group of kids that are starting college . There is a murder and the poor girl is frozen in the ice . Twenty years have and most people have forgotten what transpired but when there is another murder that group of friends and a well loved professor are thrown into the middle of it .
The author takes us on a roller coaster ride of emotions . The characters are well written and complex. Each of the students is trying to figure out their lives and their place in the world.
Over all I enjoyed this read but there were just a few times where the conversations dragged or just didn't really make a lot of sense . The author will keep you on the edge of your seat as you try and figure out who actually did the murders . If you want a good read to add to your summer reading list check it out

(I received a free copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.)

It is more than just the late November weather that has cast a chill over the campus of Atherton University. When the wife of respected professor Eric Eberman is killed in a tragic accident, his secret student lover, Randall Stone, fears the professor tried to avert career suicide by committing homicide. Or do the dead woman’s haunting last words point to an even more damning crime?
Fearing the truth, Randall digs into his lover’s hidden history. But what he finds draws him and everyone he cares for into a dark dance of sexual manipulation, twisted retribution, and murderous rage where nothing is as it seems. And no one will escape from it unscathed…if they escape at all.

This is the fourth book of Rice's I have read and I have to say - I am not overly impressed by any of them.

This book suffers from the same issues as all the others do: great premise, sensational settings, cool turns-of-phrase...but just so, so, so, so, so overdone!

This story would have been perfectly good if Rice had stuck to the story of the professor's dead wife. There was plenty there to work with - why he felt the need to go all "teen-angst" soap opera. It was dull and irritating - this story deserved so much more...

I think I am done with Mr. Rice now.


Paul
ARH

This book was too full of profanity for me to get through it. I don't know what the filter system is for netgalley, as I've tried to filter out these sort of books for myself, but to no avail. I am sorry for the wasted copy on me.