A Wicked Snow

Truecrime writer Gregg Olsen has stood out in that crowded field withmeticulously researched and adeptly written accounts of crimes,criminals, and their victims. His strength in this genre, and whatset him apart from his true crime peers, was his assured voice andhis empathy for the people he was writing about. Good or bad, he madeyou care enough to loathe or love.

Now,Olsen shifts gears and sets his sights on writing suspense fiction,and if A WICKED SNOW is any indication, the shift is an unqualifiedsuccess. Olsen's true crime background serves him well in getting thedetails right in his story of a haunted CSI (who was a childhoodvictim that narrowly escaped her serial-killing mother) and thechallenges she faces in her work and in her life, as old nightmaresseem to be being resurrected to torture her and to put her own life,and the lives of those she loves, in jeopardy.