Winter Ghost

by Don Meyer

The discovery of the body, a woman, naked, frozen solid, outside the cabin, hands pressed against the glass of the oversized center window, looking in, ultimately leaves Sheriff Tom Monason with more questions than answers.

332 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Don Meyer is a writer and speaker. He is the author of six books:

the American War

The Sheriff Tom Monason Trilogy:
Winter Ghost
McKenzie Affair
Uncle Denny

Jennifer's Plan

The Protected Will Never Know
a Vietnam Memoir

Always ready to speak about his rediscovered passion to anyone who would let him or would listen (a passion his late wife called his nice little hobby). These days Don is content to just write and sit quietly, but a simple nudge and he’ll gladly tell what he knows, or thinks he knows.

Reviews

[Al · Rating 1 out of 5]

Start with a frozen naked woman "looking" in the window of a vacation home, hands on the glass. Call it an accidental death. Add in reports of an unknown woman visiting the home on subsequent weekends. Season with two more couples dying after visiting the home, a sheriff new to the small nearby town (one Tom Monason), several deputies, and a bar owner, and you have, in addition to a ghost story, the makings of a murder mystery.

Winter Ghost attempts such a recipe, and a promising one it is. It never seized my interest, unfortunately, due to thin characterization and plotting, and to comprehensive stylistic infelicities. That's a shame, because Mr. Meyer's other book reviewed on this site, The Protected Will Never Know, the memoir of a soldier during the Vietnam conflict, was excellent. Of the two books, the second one is most definitely recommended.