Now I See You

Mountain Resort Mystery #1

by Shannon Work

Two murders. A terrified mountain resort. Can a daring reporter help stop an avalanche of bodies before she becomes the next victim?

Celebrity TV anchor Georgia Glass wants out of Denver and far away from her obsessed fan. Set to host her own investigative crime show in LA, she’s surprised to inherit a Victorian house in Aspen from a mysterious uncle she never knew. But while exploring the gothic property, she discovers the frozen corpse of a missing heiress.

Georgia’s journalist instincts kick in and she is determined to help police track down the killer. But by investigating the murder, has she made herself the killer’s next target?

Can Georgia help solve the case before she becomes the next victim? Or will the stalker that followed her to Aspen get her first?

Now I See You is a fast-paced whodunit set amidst the spectacular scenery of Aspen, Colorado, and the first book in the suspenseful Mountain Resort Mystery series.

Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Book Club, Crime, Suspense

500 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 14, 2020

About the author

Shannon Work writes traditional mysteries set in the Rocky Mountains and Texas. The Mountain Resort Mystery Series features detective Jack Martin, a former FBI agent from Texas who now solves murders committed in the most exclusive resort towns in Colorado, including Aspen, Vail, and Telluride.

Shannon grew up in Del Rio, a border town in the dusty wilds of West Texas. When she graduated from high school, she moved east to College Station and graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor's degree in Journalism and a master's degree in Land Economics and Real Estate.

Most of her working life has been spent developing real estate, earning a national Best in America Living Award for one of her developments.

Shannon and her husband are recent empty nesters and split their time between Houston, Texas and Telluride, Colorado. Always with their three rescue dogs in tow!


Connect with Shannon online:
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Visit her website at:
www.ShannonWork.com

Reviews

[Kaceey]

T.V. anchor Georgia Glass prepares for the opportunity of a lifetime. Hosting her own investigative show in L.A. But before embarking on this epic journey she chooses to take a few weeks off to tend to her newly inherited home in Aspen. First project…renovating the garage! Huh? Well, that certainly wouldn’t have been my pick on where to start a reno, but that’s just me.💁‍♀️

Turns out, it would become a chilling choice after Georgia and her contractor stumble across the body of a young woman in that garage. Once the police arrive at the scene it becomes clear. The picture-perfect resort community of Aspen has a serial killer on the loose!

This book read easily enough with short chapters but could easily have been significantly shorter. Just too much.

The ending was a bit obvious (to me) leaving me a bit underwhelmed. This is book one of a new series but I’m not sure it hooked me enough to continue on.

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Thank you to Goodreads Giveaways.

[Sarah Woodhouse]

What a slam bang of a thriller! I was holding my breath for half of the book and gripping my pillow for the rest of it. What an excellent and exciting start to a new series.

I cannot emphasize how much I enjoyed this book. It's an incredibly well written, well staged ride. Not a single boring page.

In fact, it reminds me a lot of the first mystery book I ever read: The Westing Game. I cannot remember who the author was but that book has stuck with me for most of my life and this is a book that I know I will be contemplating for many years to come.

I cannot recommend this book enough. Take a chance, like I did, you won't regret it. This is the first book I've read by this author and I cannot wait to read the next one!

[Deanna Gamble]

For the most part, this was pretty good. I have a few icks about it though.. I knew who the killer and stalker were from literally the first moment we met them. Also, I had to go back and check who the author was because it really comes across as being written by a male author who has a lot of disdain for women, especially ones who aren't beautiful/perfect, and it sat wrong with me every single time the author talked about any female character that wasn't Georgia Glass. I will probably read the rest in the series, but NOT on audiobook. I read this one on audiobook, but I did not like the audiobook reader at all, and made it less enjoyable for me.

[Paulina Przyborowska]

No, sweet mother of god no. If melatonin and a toddler wrote a book. The same retelling of conversations and events went on in every chapter and multiple times throughout the book. I swear the author got paid per word. The killer was obvious. The story itself wasn't too bad, but it would have been much better as a short story or with a better editor. I had to check that it was a female author because the female representation was atrocious.

[Kim]

It pulled me in early and was a fast read. I couldn’t put it down! A wonderful “who-done-it” and I can not wait to read the second book.

[Rebekah Kencke]

Entertaining but a little predictable. 3.5 ⭐️’s

[Teresa]

Cliched, predictable, tons of red herrings, VERY obvious who the stalker was and figured out the killer long before the investigators

[Emily]

Painfully obvious who the bad guy(s) would be from the first twenty pages. Riddled with errors that a competent editor should have caught (in the same paragraph, she refers to a date as occurring at both lunch and dinner). Too many boring side characters. And the sequel is about the detective who lucks into solving the case and the dog he reluctantly adopts? No thanks.

Plus’s the heroine’s name is Georgia Glass, so the author is clearly just fucking with us, right?

[Taylor E]

If the premise of something about Mary and a murder mystery were combined. It was meh, repetitive, the main character doesn’t seem like she is the smartest lol. Also I am also surprised that this author was a woman given the writing style towards women. It wasn’t the worst 2 star I have read but I definitely had to skim a lot because it was dragging on for so long.

[Kristina Haro]

typical Amazon mystery

There is a recipe to these Kindle Unlimited books:


70 chapters
15 suspects
Cheesy one liners

It kept me reading to figure out who the killer was, so to me it was not too predictable.

[Mariah Otero]

It was basically a murder mystery game. I found myself questioning after every chapter who the killer was. There was a good twist at the end that I did not even consider… but 3 stars because it dragged on

[Emily Wright]

DNF

Gave up at 50%. Really tried but just couldn’t get into it

[Lelia Taylor]

3.5 stars

Georgia Glass is an interesting woman and I was particularly struck by a random thought she has, that she has “vague memories” of her visits to Aspen after just ten years. That makes her seem rather shallow but I actually think it might be a kind of commentary on so many people today whose lives are so filled with information flooding their brains from all directions. TV journalists especially may find their attention and focus driven from one story to the next, causing memories to be more fleeting than in less frenetic times. Hmm…something I’ll want to think more about.

Besides finding a body in her newly inherited property, Georgia is also recovering from the stress of having a devoted fan who turned into a stalker. That situation seems to be under control but no journalist worthy of the name could resist looking into the presence of a dead body practically at her feet. She’s new in town but makes connections quickly, including with a local police detective and it isn’t long before she comes to the attention of a serial killer who already has committed several murders.

I figured out most of the salient facts faster than I expect to in a true whodunnit, as this has been billed, but the author has crafted a nicely suspenseful story. Detective Jack Martin will be back in the next book, set in Vail, and I’m looking forward to seeing him again.

[Greensleeves]

I did like this book but maybe due to a very sporadic reading of it and short chapters and a multitude of characters I felt it was a bit raw. As Shannon says in the end, this was her first novel and it seemed a bit like student’s work. I’m sure she could have worked more on the developing the characters and scenery, but I know how hard this is so for a first novel the book was quite good. I’m glad she mentioned in the end she was inspired by Agatha Christie and PD James which are also my favourite mystery authors.

[Stacy]

I've had this whole series on my want to read list for a while now, so I was thrilled to win this book in a Goodreads giveaway! I really enjoyed it! The characters were likable, the pace was fast, and the plot was exciting. It was hard to put this one down. Shannon Work has done an excellent job with this debut. I can't wait to read the rest of the series now!

[Bridget Taylor]

Very entertaining! Kept me guessing right up to the end.

[Rhiannon]

This book kept me guessing the whole time! Suspenseful and entertaining, I couldn't put it down.

[Michaele]

Love the suspense!

I enjoyed the fast pace and the way the villain was kept hidden until the end. I will look for more books by this author!

[Stacy Kingsley]

There were things I liked in this book, and there were things that I really did not like. I knew who the stalker was and who the killer was very early on in the book. I thought the book tried a little too hard to redirect attention to other characters as the killer and the stalker. I felt that there could have been a little bit more background on some of the characters - I honestly felt that this could have been two different books that could have been part of a series. The characters of Susan and Jack were interesting, and I wanted a little more development of them. I thought the main character, Georgia, could have been a little more interesting, but to me she was a little flat. I wanted more about her past and, well, just more character development. The reason I am giving this book three instead of two stars, is because even though I didn't care for it overall, I didn't hate it enough to stop reading and I did decide to finish it.

[Kristen S]

I had such high hopes for this one. I expected a thriller mystery where two kinds of stalkers come together in different meanings. I was ready for a fast paced book that would grasp my attention and refused to let me go.

That is not what I got.

Instead I got a MC who was the dumbest "smart" person I have ever met. A storyline that dragged and failed to make a point. The ending was finally getting good and then just dropped because we didn't even get to see the main highlight of it.

This is what I get for reading the back before buying.

Also I don't know why this is showing 500 pages. It was only 358 so...maybe look into that.

[Erica Kaufman]

To start on a high note the idea of the story was good but there were a lot of cons. I just didn’t feel like it was well written and the story telling was just surface level. There were too many characters to fit into 340 pages for any of them to have significant meaning. Also, the bad guys of the story were cartoonishly evil, the way the murderer spoke about his motives was in a way that nobody could take seriously. I also read a review that there were too many red herrings and it’s very true.

[Sandra Lopez]

Reporter Georgia was heading to Aspen to inherit her uncle’s house with a nagging fear that her stalker was still out there. Then she finds a body in her backyard. Could a serial killer be on the loose?

Story had nice descriptions of the snowy mountains, landscapes, and architecture. It’s a bit slow, often lagging with lengthy prose and too many characters. Well-written overall, but just not as exciting as I thought.

A decent mystery.

[verena heilman]

This book was meh for me. It was a decent enough story, but it was hard to connect with the characters and it was easy to guess both perps in this book. Also the way women were talked about in this book was kinda alarming considering a woman wrote this book. It felt like they were just objects to further the plot of the book and I dodnt like that. Overall, it was your classic thriller, but I wouldn't recommend it if someone asked for a good thriller.

[Laura Herrington]

Just Ok. Annoying protagonist

I had high hopes but oof…. This could have been a very good series. Problem 1- Georgia is highly obnoxious. Think..:: a smart dumb girl in a silly horror movie.

More importantly, it wasn’t much of a mystery unfortunately. You will future out “who did it” very early on.

[Michelle C Lidtke]

I felt this could have been shorter. Very repetitive. Felt like a Matlock series. Lots of characters and mystery. Knew right away who the killer was. I would prob read the next book. I Just hope it's more engaging.

[samantha]

It was okay. Took me a long time to finish it… Felt like a lot of filler in the middle and then boom, story wrapped up and done. I like that she stated it was her first book, I think I’d read another one of hers to see how her writing has progressed.

[Laura Nelson]

The book was decent, but I personally thought it was too easy to figure out the stalker/murderer. There were a few too many characters that were unnecessary as well. Worth a read if you don't have to put out the money for it.

[Diane Montoya]

This book was amazingly good. I loved it. It’s a great suspense/mystery book it kept me interested in it throughout the book.

[Cindy Whitehead]

Great mystery, fast read

[Hattie Cauthorn]

A well-written whodunit that kept me guessing till the very end! Can’t wait for the next book in the mountain resort mystery series!