This was an excellent start to a new series. It took a little while to grab me at first and I nearly gave up after reading the first 4/5 chapters but I pursued and I’m glad I did! Once it got going it was a real thrill of a ride!

I look forward to reading more about Nikki.

Thank you to Bookouture and Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my review.

Stacy Green's The Girls in the Snow grabs you at the very start and doesn't let you go. A psychological thriller that spans decades and shows mankind's evil toward other men and the effect it has on the families and the LEOs that have to stare that evil in the eye. Excellent book.

This was a great start to a new series! I really liked Nikki & her backstory making her the person she is, and how it played such a large part of the story. I thought the twists at the end were brilliant - I guessed one but not the other. I'm really looking forward to the next book in the series.

Stacy Green brings a small town in Minnesota with a dark past that will have readers unable to put the story down. Nikki Hunt has a story that she doesn't want to keep telling and when a person is murdered in her hometown everything comes crashing in. She refuses to give into what people are expecting and demanding.
Nikki is a hard characters to to love but as the story progresses shows that she isn't cold but passionate about about what she knows is true.
While The Girls in the Snow is the first in a new series readers will feel they are missing a story or two with the way the different characters connect and work together.
Being a Minnesota girl and living about 2 hours away from Stillwater I can honestly say this author painted the city perfectly not to mention the cold and snow.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the advance copy of Stacy Green The Girls in the Snow.

Nikki Hunt (née Walsh) is an FBI profiler heading up a new Behavioural Analysis Unit that covers Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. She returns to her hometown of Stillwater, Minnesota, after nearly 20 years to investigate the deaths of two teenage girls found frozen in the snow. While, at first glance, the scene bears some similarities to a series of deaths she has been investigating attributed to the killer dubbed Mr Frost, Nikki knows immediately a different killer is at work here. Nevertheless she undertakes to stay around with her team and look into these deaths.

But things get complicated when, meanwhile, there is support in the town for an appeal by the man who was convicted of killing her parents nearly 20 years ago. She had returned from a party one night to find her parents shot dead and a killer lurking in her house. Nikki is adamant that Mark Todd is guilty. After all, her was in her house and had her mother’s blood on him, his fingerprints on the gun. And he had tried to attack her earlier at the party. But as she investigates the current murders, she uncovers uncomfortable truths about people she used to trust. Soon there is no choice but to question everything she believed about the past as the two cases become inextricably linked.

This story got going quite quickly and soon became very compelling and engaging. The characters were very well portrayed. Nikki herself was well done - resolute yet empathetic. Her supporting team - Liam Wilson (sidekick) and Courtney Hart (forensics wizard) are likeable, professional and solid characters. This book should appeal to all mystery/thriller fans and I’m keen to read the next one in this exciting new series. My thanks go to Netgalley, Bookouture and Stacy Green for providing a review copy. my opinions are my own.

This book was provided to me by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. When two girls bodies are found in a field in the snow, FBI Special Agent Nikki Hunt is called to investigate. She goes back to her hometown, where her parents were murdered. This is the first in the Nikki Hunt series. There were really two stories going on here. The investigation of the two teenage girls murders and the Innocence Project's campaign to free a convicted killer. I was hooked on this book. This is a very quick and easy read. Nikki heads up the new Behavioral Analysis Unit in St. Paul, Minnesota and works out of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. Her team consists of Courtney Hart and Liam Wilson. All main characters are likeable. As the BAU team comes to Stillwater, Minnesota, the local sheriff's department works well with the FBI. I truly cannot wait for #2 in this series. Thank you NetGalley, Bookouture and Stacy Green. This book will be release on 10/19/20.

Definitely a story full of intense twists and turns!
The Girls in the Snow is the first book in the new Nikki Hunt series. Nikki Hunt is a FBI profiler/agent that returns to her hometown of Stillwater, Minnesota to investigate the murder of two girls. A intriguing twist arises about her own parents murder when she was a teenager living in Stillwater.
The Girls in the Snow (Nikki Hunt Book 1) is a must read!
I am already anxious to read the next book in the series.
Stacy Green is a new author to me and one I hope to read more from.
Many thanks to NetGalley, Bookouture and author, Stacy Green, for the opportunity to read and give my honest review about this book. All opinions expressed are my own.

What a fabulous start to a new series and Stacy Green has done a brilliant job in keeping me hooked to this book and roll on the next because this I am sure is going to be a winner of a series.
We start with the discovery of two young girls found murdered and left in the snow FBI agent Nikki Hunt is called back to her hometown Stillwater to assist as this looks like it could be the work of an ongoing serial killer she is investigating. For Nikki being back in Stillwater is hard as it’s the place where her parents were brutally murdered and brings about horrific memories of that time and to make things worse the convicted killer Mark Todd is launching an appeal to his conviction.
These two stories running concurrently make for a really fabulous read I had many suspicions and was mostly wrong and that’s all down to the cleverly crafted storyline that Stacy Green created keeping up the pace and interest and I really did love this book.
So more please so we can see more from Nikki Hunt and many thanks to author.
My thanks to NetGalley and and Bookouture for giving me the chance to read the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

I loved this psychological thriller! Great characters that were easy to like and easy to dislike. I kept thinking I knew who the bad guy was... but after lots of crazy twists and turns I was floored at the ending!!
Highly recommend
Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book

This book was suspense, chills and thrills at it's best! I couldn't put the book down and this is the kind of reading I like....it grabs you from the beginning, then it calms down (for about a second) and then Boom! Tosses and turns you all over the place!

This is a read, read, read! Wow! Left me breathless!

A compelling police procedural with enough twists to keep you guessing. This has some great twists that surprised me and made me keeping wanting to find out what would happen next. The main character was someone I became invested in early on and her backstory helped propel the main story as well. 3.5 stars. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an early copy of this book!

This was and enjoyable read. While there were a few parts that were predictable, the story overall kept you guessing till the end. Even I was suprised at who the really killer was. The characters were all very interesting and very well developed. I'll being keeping an eye out for book 2 in this series.

☆☆ | Disappointing. Dull. Dragged along.

I was SO looking forward to this thriller. The cover and synopsis had me hooked, and the first few chapters seemed promising. Although, I quickly realized that this book was NOT going to cut it for me.

This book is marketed as an on-the-edge-of-your-seat kind of thriller that will keep you up at night, and that will scare you. I was (rightfully) going into this book expecting to be thrilled. Instead, I was forced to follow along to a stubborn main character who continuously fat shamed others around her, and who spent WAY too much of her story dropping the “badass girl, take no shit from no one” persona to fawn over a man.

Yes, the fatphobia was pretty bad. But good GOD, the romance was dreadful. Total insta-love, and might I just add that the man our main character is so enamored with is like, the bare minimum of a guy? She’s constantly talking about how NICE and SWEET he is for doing like, basic things. Not to mention the first thing she notices about him besides his WICKED HOT FACE is, wait for it, that he smells like clean laundry.

Nikki, babe. Is the bar REALLY that low?

Although, the romance wasn’t the only thing that bugged me. I also happened to despise every character that walked onto the page. Okay, maybe despise is a strong word, but I could not find myself interested in ANY of the characters. They were all so dull or bratty or too stubborn for their own good. The plot was already dragging, so having no interest in the characters as well made this quite a slog to get through.

What I really found irritating, though, was how the teenagers were written. I kid you not, I was starting to think that Stacy Green looked up a list of every possible stereotype of Generation Z and went “yup, that sounds about right.” Sure, that’s not anything problematic, but it was so ANNOYING to read every teenage girl and wonder how they escaped the screenplay of Mean Girls.

In the end, I feel like this book really missed the mark for me. The cover and concepts were the best part of it in my opinion, and I do hope that in the future Stacy Green thinks to double down on the fatphobic comments and try out some sensitivity readers. And while she’s at it? Maybe try writing a book where the “so strong oh my goodness” woman character doesn’t need a male love interest that smells like detergent to complete her storyline.

Thank you NetGalley for gifting me an early review copy of this book!

A very good start to a series. I've been in the mood to read thrillers and crime fiction these days. This book is perfect. I couldn't put it down and finished it overnight.🌃

As a teenager Nikki is the sole witness to her parents' brutal murder🔪. After moving out from her hometown in Stillwater, Minnesota decades later, Nikki is now a celebrated FBI agent and Profiler🔍.

She and her team is called to her hometown when two teenage girls are found murdered❄. One of the parents is John, her ex-boyfriend who supported her all those years ago on that fateful night.
When she arrives she is greeted by protesters who want Mark Todd, her parents' killer freed.

But she is determined to let her past be firmly there, In the past and focus on the present case. But of course the past keeps appearing wherever she goes sometimes in form of Rory, Mark's brother.
She starts questioning herself and isn't sure she trusted the right people all those years ago.

The truth she knows may not be the truth.

I'm not going to say much about this because I may end up giving spoilers.
This book has a protagonist who is so strong she reminds me a bit of Eve Dallas from #InDeath series. Looking forward to a beautiful friendship and a cute mother daughter bond.
I'd say my doubts of the killer were correct. And I was expecting more on the supporting characters. This is basically the origin story. I can't wait for inevitable flashbacks throughout her journey of becoming the very good profiler she is.

I loved how the author has described Stillwater. It's such a charming historical town. I had to google it to see its beauty.

But of course it's just the first book and I'm excited to know more about the people surrounding Nikki, her daughter, her team, her ex husband, including her budding romance with Rory❤.
⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

Thank you to @netgalley and the Publisher for letting me read the #eARK for my honest opinion

This is a great, great book! I wanted to keep on reading because I wanted to know who the bad guy was, but I did not want it to end either. Choices, choices, choices. :)

The author gave us an array of suspects to choose from and I really could not make up my mind. It must be him... Oh no, can it be her...? No, not possible. I am sure now. It's definitely him... Those sentences kept flying through my mind constantly and I love it.

Nikki Hunt is also a very likable character: tough as nails when she has to be, soft as butter when needed. She is surrounded by a team with a lot of expertise.

Nikki is fighting her own demons and then she is called to her hometown again... What will this do to her and how will the villagers react???

What more can I say about this book? Not a lot. I think the next few words will say it all: it's a mustread! 5 stars.

Thank you, Stacy Green and Bookouture

This is my first Stacy Green book and It won’t be my last. Book one of a crime thriller series and can’t wait for book 2!

It’s been awhile since I’ve picked up a crime book and this had all the CSI feels. This story follows FBI agent Nikki Hunt, who returns to her hometown after 20 years to investigate a murder of two best friends, Madison and Kaylee, who were found frozen in the snow. The book starts off with Nikki coming home one night to find both of her parents murdered. She can’t remember much of that night because she had been out partying with friends so her memory is a bit hazy. Flash forward 20 years, not only is she trying to piece together who killed these two girls, she is also trying to figure out what happened the night her parents were killed. This book also has a slow burn romance that develops later in the book. If you love a good crime thriller story, be on the lookout for this book, which will be released on October 19th. Thank you Netgalley for a copy this digital book.
#NetGalley #thegirlsinthesnow

Since reading and greatly disliking two very popular books with “Girl” in the title, I’ve mostly made it a point to avoid any books including that word in the inscription. However, Stacy Green is the author of The Girls in the Snow, so I decided to make an exception. That proved to be a wise choice. As a fan of Ms. Green’s earlier series, I looked forward to the premier of the Nikki Hunt series, which promised to be “unputdownable.” Is it? Oh, yes!

The book is set on the scenic St. Croix River city of Stillwater, Minnesota, a town not far east of the Twin Cities. It is considered to be the “birthplace of Minnesota” and is a destination stop for visitors looking for historic shops, B&Bs, eateries, wineries, river adventures, and festivals in every season. Nicole “Nikki” Hunt is not there for the view, however. She is an FBI profiler on the hunt for a serial killer. When the frozen bodies of two local teenagers are found in her hometown, Nikki is called upon to investigate. Although she quickly determines that this case is different, she stays on the case.

Things get complicated because when Nikki was a teenager, she arrived home from a party to find her parents murdered. She became the key witness in a trial that sent a young man to prison. Now she is confronted by protesters insisting that he is innocent and demanding that he be freed. Even the man’s brother wants to meet with her, but rather than berating her, Rory is kind and understanding, sending Nikki ‘s brain into a whirlwind of confusion. Could she have been mistaken? Did the police screw up? Should she trust Rory? She needs to focus on finding the killer of the two girls!

The writing is straightforward. There is very little fluff in the narration. We do have access to Nikki’s thoughts and her history, which is horrifying. We don’t get a lot of atmosphere, other than some descriptions of an out-of-the-way restaurant, icy roads, and things of that sort. This is a police procedural, a whodunit. The Girls in the Snow also serves as a way to highlight violence in our society, the trauma felt by survivors of violent crime, and also The Innocence Project.

I liked Nikki. She is a complex character. I liked the way the author introduces her background by returning her to her hometown to solve a crime. It forces her to deal with her past in ways that she otherwise never would. We get a look at her daughter, and we see glimpses of her FBI team. There is an ex-husband and a potential love interest. I see a good future for this series.

My thanks to NetGalley, to Stacy Green, and to Bookouture for this ARC digital copy. My opinions are my own.

4 stars.

So I always worry when I start a new police serial that they might get a bit samey - how many original murder stories can there actually be? Well it turns out there are loads! I loved this - great introduction to a new heroine - with murdered parents and a great reputation for catching bad guys, Nikki returns to her home town to assist the local force in solving the case of 2 teenage girls murdered and left frozen in the snow! It just so happens to be at the same time as the man who killed her parents is appealing his conviction! It’s not long before Nikki starts to realise those she thought she could trust have been betraying her in the worst possible way! Wasn’t sure who the killer was so that was a surprise - I was just glad it wasn’t the hot new potential love interest!! Sorry if that’s a spoiler! I cannot wait for the next one!

Gritty thriller,two crimes one in the past ,one in the present which become intertwined. Good characters and a fast paced exciting story which will keep you guessing.

This is the first book of a new series, featuring Nikki Hunt, FBI Agent. The story takes place in the Minnesota winter when the bodies of two high school girls are found frozen. This is a good story, and I look forward to reading more in this series.