Cold Snap: A Short Story of Suspense

by L.S. Sharrow

When Alice leaves her Hanukkah table to travel with her new husband, Sonny, to West Virginia’s farm country for Christmas, she's in for a shock. Her new in-laws--Sonny's aunt and uncle--are not the gentle country folk they at first appear to be. Neither is her husband.

31 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 1, 2021

About the author

Sharrow comes from a family of storytellers, lithographers, painters, and glass artists, as well as truck drivers and steel workers. Her interests include Jewish history, feminism, evolutionary history, and paleoanthropology.

Growing up her family spoke four languages besides English: Spanish, Yiddish, Russian, and German.

She concentrates most of her writing on hard-boiled whodunnits with a female sleuth.

Reviews

[Jane Reid]

An Intriguing Quick Read

Cold Snap is a short read about Alice, who travels to West Virginia to spend Christmas with her new husband’s relatives on a farm. But when they get there, she discovers that his family are bigots and racists. Not only that, but after a shot-gun wedding, she is beginning to wonder why she married him in the first place.

It is fast-paced and punchy, leaving the reader at the end on a cliff-hanger wanting to know what happens next.

[Jack]

It was a realistic and gritty story of how Antisemitism ruined a young family.