Book: Dead of Winter
Author: Keri Beevis
Genre: Thriller
Publisher: Boldwood Books
Publication Date: 10th October 2025
Description
A sister looking for answers.
A brother with secrets to hide…Three days before Christmas, I travel to Midwinter Manor in Norfolk through a worsening snowstorm to meet Daniel, the brother I never knew existed. He has reluctantly granted me an hour of his precious time.
The welcome I receive is frosty. Daniel is cold, intimidating and unfriendly, while his wife, Rose, is polite, but tense. From the moment I step through the door of this imposing manor house, I sense I’m not welcome.
When I go to leave, the snowy blizzard prevents me. Then there’s a power cut and I can’t let anyone know where I am. I realise I am trapped.
Something feels wrong in this house. The way Daniel and Rose speak in whispers behind closed doors suggests something’s amiss. As cracks start to form in their stories, I wonder what it is they are hiding.
Midwinter Manor is a house full of secrets, and some of them are dangerously deadly.
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Review
Lola Henderson just wants to know why her parents gave her away at birth. The only person who can give her those answers is her only living relative, her biological brother Daniel. When she reached out to him before he was cold and harsh, he didn’t want to meet her.
When she is given the opportunity to work near Norfolk a few days before Christmas, she reaches out again. He agrees, but as he is in a wheelchair, she would have to go to his home, Midwinter Manor.
As she sets off the snow starts to fall, but during the meeting with him the snow had come down hard and now she is trapped with a brother that is hostile and his wife who seemed a little more cordial but it isn’t long before Lola started wondering if everything they are telling her is true but as things progress is she even safe in this manor?
I loved the setting of Dead of Winter, with a snowstorm hitting Norfolk and leaving the ground covered in snow with a cold and creepy manor, with no electricity or phone signal.
Keri Beevis writes thrillers so well that I always feel like I am in the story as the main character and living what she is going through, and I cannot put the book down because I want to know what happens next.
This was a fantastic book and had me at the first page.
If you are looking for your next winter thriller, I would definitely recommend it.
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this ebook from Netgalley. Thank you to Boldwood Books for allowing me to review it.
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