Chill Factor - Sandra Brown

Category: Adults, Romance, Sex Scenes, Thriller
Language: English
Keywords: isolation Murder North Carolina

Written by Sandra Brown
Read by Stephen Lang
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date: August 16, 2005
Duration: 13:29:02

Lust, jealousy and murder suffuse Brown’s crisp thriller set in the snowbound mountains of North Carolina….. a woman trapped in a remote cabin with a man who may be a serial killer.

Five women are missing from the sleepy mountain town of Cleary, North Carolina, and a blue ribbon has been left near where each woman was last seen.

Lilly Martin has returned to Cleary to close the sale of her cabin. Lilly and Dutch Burton’s marriage didn’t withstand the loss of their three-year-old daughter, despite their attempt at a fresh start. As she races back to the city to beat a blizzard, her car skids out, striking a hiker emerging from the woods. Turns out he’s a man she knows: handsome freelance writer Ben Tierney, whom she met and flirted with the summer before. With no choice but to wait out the storm in the cabin with Ben, who is injured, Lilly calls Dutch, but he can’t reach her via the now impassable mountain road. They’ve no choice but to wait out a brutal blizzard in the cabin. And as the hours of their confinement mount, Lilly wonders if the greater threat to her safety isn’t the storm, but the stranger beside her….

Meanwhile, Cleary is haunted by the case of the five missing women—all now feared dead. With Lilly still stranded, Dutch goes ballistic when the FBI arrives in town with evidence that Tierney is the serial killer.

There are also several minor plot threads to follow in this novel.

“Stephen Lang’s breathy baritone adds a deep sense of disquiet as writer Ben Tierney buries a body–next to three other bodies. Is he the serial psycho, “Blue,” who’s been abducting women? The FBI thinks so. But Lilly Burton knows him simply as a guy she flirted with last summer. Lang keeps things intriguing enough to involve listeners as the plot struggles toward its obvious setup: A car accident and a monstrous blizzard combine to leave Lilly and Ben stranded alone at Lilly’s cabin. As the pace picks up, Lang keeps anxiety on the front burner. Apprehension mounts, suspense builds, and the climax holds listeners.” …AudioFile