A Winter's Kill

By: JK Ellem

Narrated by: Cassandra Alling

Serial killer and FBI Agent become neighbors...

It’s winter, and a new kind of predator has just come out of hibernation. All summer long he has been hibernating, just like the bears do in winter. During the fall he spent his months preparing, getting ready, making sure this season would be his best ever. And when winter finally comes…he’ll hunt.

The winters in Willow Falls, Iowa are cold, brutal and unforgiving. And so is the town’s newest visitor. Except he’s not passing through. He’s here on vacation, for some fun and he’s going to stay for a while.

They call him “Robin Hood”, a winter serial killer who has left a gruesome trail of horror and death across four Midwestern states. His grisly trademark is skewering his victims to tree trunks using a hunting crossbow.

Now he’s here…

For ex-FBI Special Agent Carolyn Ryder, winter is the season to reflect, to come home, to take stock and to grieve. Willow Falls for her is filled with sorrow and regret. She has returned to her hometown to bury her mother after a long battle with illness. Her sister blames Carolyn for not caring, for not being there for her and their mother, for being a cold, dispassionate person who was more interested in building her career than in the family.

In the close-knit community of Willow Falls, Ryder has no reputation, no authority and no say with the townsfolk. To them she’s a stranger, an outsider, someone who can’t be trusted.

Then the first body is discovered; a local, a teenage girl found almost crucified to a white pine deep in the forest.

The local police aren’t equipped to deal with something like this, yet they stubbornly refuse Ryder’s help. With no support, Ryder decides to go it alone, to follow the clues herself, to trust her instincts. Slowly she starts to formulate a theory as to who the killer is. But no one will believe her. It’s too incredible to conceive.

Lock the doors, check the windows, stoke the fire and keep the lights on. It’s winter, and a new kind of predator has just come out of hibernation.

A Winter’s Kill is a dark, sinister, gritty novel from the Amazon Thriller Best Selling author, JK Ellem.

This audiobook is expressively read by Cassandra Alling, with audio engineering by Matthew Kulewicz, MPSE. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

©2019 JK Ellem (P)2025 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

Great book

I don’t normally listen to this kind of book but wanted something a little different from my romance novels. This had me from the start!
I didn’t want to stop listening!

loved it!

so happy this is finally made it to audible and can't wait for rest of series (hopefully with same narrator) throughout.
I yelled out several times lol in anticipation of getting the bad bad guy. I enjoyed this very much

Not my favorite

The story just wasn’t that interesting. I wanted to like it but didn’t even finish it.

Terrible book all around!

The story lacked so much detail and suspense. The narrator made the characters sound almost childlike. The mix of story and narrator together made my eyes roll more times than I can count. I’m a trucker and enjoy different authors and many narrators. But this was just awful. Don’t waste your credit.