It had been awhile since I read a Monkeewrench novel by the duo P.J. Tracy. This is the 4th in the series of 10 novels. While this one did not have the nerdy and quirky Monkeewrench crew front and center, it did have the ever entertaining detectives Gino and Magozzi as the pivotal characters.
Overall the suspense/thriller plot was good with enough suspects to keep you guessing, but not so many that you lost track. I appreciated the humor, one-liners and the strong female characters.
Interesting quote in the book by one of the characters: "'...new way to pose bodies. Mark my words, snowmen will start cropping up all over the place, then somebody'll write a book, and then they'll make a TV movie of the week.'" Snow Blind is published in 2006; Jo Nesbo publishes The Snowman in 2010 and then the movie "The Snowman" based on Nesbo's book is released 2017. Hmmmmm.
Summary from Goodreads: The Dead of Winter...Minneapolis, winter's first white flakes; a park full of snowmen. But the layers of packed snow hide a goulish surprise ...First, the bodies of two cops are found inside the snowmen and then a day later, in the countryside to the north, newly elected Sheriff Iris Rikker makes a similarly shocking discovery. Soon Detectives Gino and Magozzi are sent north through a Minnesota blizzard to find what else links the investigations.
Quote: "That...was the secret to communicating with men. Whenever possible, use signals instead of words. Words just confused them."
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