A HAUNTED VERMONT FARMHOUSE
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
Ruthie Washburne does not understand her mother's insistence that they live off the grid, until her mother suddenly vanishes and she finds the diary of Sara Harrison Shea, a woman who disappeared months after the tragic death of her daughter and is rumored to haunt the streets of West Hall, Vermont, and gains insight into Sara's desperate need to hold her daughter once again.
MURDER ON HOLIDAY BREAK
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
During Christmas break, a group of friends from college meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. They arrive at an idyllic estate in the Scottish Highlands on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world. Two days later, one of them is dead, and another of them did it.
FINLAND CRIME THRILLER
As Red As Blood by Salla Simukka
In the midst of the freezing Arctic winter, seventeen-year-old Lumikki Andersson walks into her school's darkroom and finds a stash of money splattered with someone's blood. She is swept into a whirlpool of dangerous encounters with dirty cops and a notorious drug kingpin as she helps to trace the origin of the cash.