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Chosen for October by Liz De Jager

If you like being scared.  If you enjoy twisty dark stories.  If you like a tense well written psycholgical thriller with dubious characters, Cold Kiss is for you. 

 Nate and Sara are alikeable young couple - they aren't innocents, not by a long shot.  Nate's been in bad places and Sara is a girl who is learning to cope with what's coming her way.  Throw into this mix of anxiety, an awful snow storm getting worse and a hitch-hiker with an awful sounding cough, who begs the two runaways for a lift; for which he's prepared to pay them hard cash.  Giving this weird rude man, Sylvester White,  a lift, is not something they are keen to do, but Nate faces the reality that the money will be a way for them to make a start wherever they decide to settle.  Initially things are okay-ish, but Syl's questions are a bit too personal, a bit too uncomfortable.  They come across a rather ratty motel and decide that they have to pull in as the weather outside is getting worse.  Nate arranges for a room and when he gets back to the car Sara is in a state.  Syl's not breathing.

  As it is, as a reader I was already tense.  Reading this made me go, phew, that's okay then, he's not going to turn into an axe murderer or something and kill them.  Oh, how the author laughed up his sleeve at me.  because this is just the beginning of the amount of crap that gets ladeled over Sara and Nate and if you think things can't get worse, well, think again, because they do.  Much much worse. 

  There are very few books I've read where I have felt such despair for the characters.  Few authors have that ability to really make me feel like I want to sit down and cry for the amount of trouble they dump their characters in.  Robin Hobb is one of these, as is Jim Butcher and now, John Rector. 

  As you read Cold Kiss you KNOW the shiz is going to hit the fan but you just don't know how or when or to what extent.  That pure anxiety just keeps you turning that page because you have to know how it pans out.  And those twists just keep on coming. 

   I'd wholeheartedly recommend Cold Kiss to crime, horror and thriller readers.  It goes that bit further, breaking through the boundaries of standard genre fiction, and delivers a whole fist full of icy cold goodness.

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