I see all these glowing reviews and I'm so jealous. I was not a fan of this one. I felt like the answer and the bad guy was literally beat over our heads. I didn't feel any mystery other than sorting it all out. I felt the conversations were choppy and the interviews felt full of Nikki's own emotions and opinions rather than letting someone else talk through an interview. I wish I'd loved this more but it was just, meh. ( )

A murder from 20 years ago is somehow linked to a murder in the present. I liked the fact that the author introduced a serial killer but didn't divulge a ton about him/her... lots of fodder for subsequent books! Really well-written - the only criticism is that for a well-regarded FBI analyst, Nikki Hunt sure missed a lot. I suppose you can argue that the past interfered with her abilities - but she was so right on in some cases. That part didn't make any sense. But still, I'll be checking out the rest of the series. ( )

I will be reading more in the Nikki Hunt series.

Stacy Green, a new to me author who I picked up because of my love for and recommendation by author Lisa Regan, is a great writer who tells a good story.

The Girls in the Snow follows special agent Nikki Hunt back to her hometown of Stillwater, Minnesota, where her past and her parents' murders become front and center as the man accused of murdering them is looking to be exonerated. While hot on the trail of the person who killed two teenagers and then a working girl/dancer in Stillwater, Nikki wrestles with her conscience while trying to stay focused. Were her memories of the night her parents were killed real? Had the people she trusted then, who seemed to also be at the center of the two teenagers' murders now, guilty?

This is a dual storyline that I didn't see ending the way it did. One part of the story I figured would happen, but the second who-done-it part, not so much. Okay, not at all.

So much fun here. If you like fast-paced, female-driven, realistic cop stories, Nikki Hunt and The Girls in the Snow by Stacy Green is for you. I'm excited to see what's up next for Nikki (wow, I make her sound real LOL). Kudos to the author for that! ( )

Nikki is an FBI agent who is called to her hometown to solve the murder of two young girls. The problem is, Nikki hasn’t been back there in a long time, her parents were murdered there twenty years ago, she helped convict the murderer and as soon as she was able to she went away to college and never looked back.

It isn’t long before her past catches up with her due to the current murders, one of the girls is her ex-boyfriend’s step-daughter, could this be awkward? Also, there are protesters trying to get the convicted murder of her parents out of jail, she was convinced he killed her parents, but as time goes on, things don’t seem so black and white anymore.

Wow, this had me on the edge of my seat from the very beginning and I couldn’t put my Kindle down, this was written exceptionally well, the story flowed so well, with so many twists and turns I honestly could not guess what was going to happen and who the murderer actually was, okay so I thought it was the obvious person, I was wrong.

When it was finally revealed I was left wide-mouthed. It was absolutely fantastic and so real to life.

This is one of the best books I have read this year!

Stacy Green is an author who is new to me but, I need to read more from her. I can’t wait for the next book in the series! ( )

This was the first book I had read by this author, and it won't be the last. I had heard and read so many good opinions from people I trusted, about this book, so when one of my good friends said "read it...you'll love it"... I did...and he was 100% right. I absolutely devoured it in a day and a half. The storyline is absolutely mesmerizing. The author so cleverly kept the reader guessing until very near the end. It was only in the last two chapters that I began to see where the story was headed. Nikki Hunt is a great main protagonist. Her team are likeable and capable, interesting investigators in this taut and gripping story. The people, the locations, and the benefits of offender profiling carry this story and I was actually sorry to have finished it. This one will diffidently go on my reread list and I will absolutely be looking for the second book in this series. ( )