The Snow Garden, Christopher Rice
The Snow Garden, Christopher Rice
1 Rating(s)
List: $42.99 | Sale: $30.10
Club: $21.49

The Snow Garden

Author: Christopher Rice

Narrator: James Daniels

Unabridged: 12 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 05/16/2017

Synopsis

A shocking death exposes dangerous forces of seduction, obsession, and vengeance lurking beneath the idyllic surface of a prestigious New England university.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.In this emotionally gripping tale from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rice, the past may seem buried, but it can come back with a deadly vengeance.Revised edition: This edition of The Snow Garden includes editorial revisions.

About Christopher Rice

Born in San Francisco and raised in New Orleans from the age of ten, Christopher Rice published four New York Times bestsellers, received a Lambda Literary Award, and was declared one of People Magazine’s Sexiest Men Alive, all by the age of thirty. His debut novel, A Density of Souls, was greeted with a landslide of media attention, much of it an offshoot of his mother’s fame as a legendary vampire chronicler. His supernatural thriller The Heavens Rise was a Bram Stoker Award nominee. The InsightOut Book Club selected his book Blind Fall as a best novel of 2008. In addition, his noir thriller Light Before Day was hailed as a “book of the year” by Lee Child. He has served as a contributing columnist to The Advocate and has been published in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Salon.com. His short fiction has been featured in the anthologies Thriller and Los Angeles Noir.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by PATRICIA on 2008-07-03 21:38:44

Christopher didn't grab my attention like his mother used to do in her early books. Then again, she lost that power many books ago, as well. I only made it a few chapters in. The characters were a bit too enigmatic for me. They didn't make me care enough to plow through the rest of the book to find out what happened to them, so I let them keep their secrets and went in search of more interesting characters elsewhere. .

Goodreads review by Max on July 05, 2009

I want Christopher Rice to be better than he is. And really, from what I've read of his trashy bestsellers, he knows how to crank out a page turner. And this is dirty, trashy fun. It's ridiculous and melodramatic, but in an unintentional sort of a way. And so I gladly demolished it in the space of a......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on December 28, 2023

Mr. Rice wrote a masterpiece in this murder mystery, "The Snow Garden." It was a Hitchcock thriller from beginning to end.......more

Goodreads review by K.Z. on September 25, 2011

2.35 A big let-down, sad to say. There was definitely the skeleton of a good story here, even after a faltering start, but it was buried beneath something like a fat suit -- unnecessary and increasingly unbelievable layers of melodramatic villains, subplots, and twists. The result was a messy glob o......more

Goodreads review by Krissy on May 23, 2016

This is my second Christopher Rice novel. They were both okay. Not great but not bad either. Both books had a few different plots going all at once and it got confusing with so many characters going every which direction. Now that I'm finished with The Snow Garden I still can't say I'm 100% sure wtf......more

Goodreads review by Mauoijenn on December 06, 2014

*Net Galley book for review* First off, I liked the story line about an HIV infected person running around on a college campus. Second thing, I find some of the things that happened in this book a little too far fetched. I just don't understand why Rice tries so hard in his books. This one was just o......more

Quotes

"Daniels's low-key, clear voice electrifies the angst of the youngsters and increases the mood of foreboding and menace created by Rice." —AudioFile Magazine“The Snow Garden offers finely nuanced character studies as its pages whiz by to its chilling conclusion.” —The Advocate“A dark, moody thriller...is revealed in layers, moves at full speed, and starts twisting from page 1.” —Out Magazine

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List