A Christmas mystery featuring Gabby McAllister, Grandma Dot, and two missing children in a snowstorm — what more could you possibly need from a holiday read?
Message in the Snow is the book that proves Dawn Merriman can do everything. She takes the cozy warmth of a Christmas setting and threads it through with real tension, real stakes, and real danger — and the result is one of the most satisfying entries in the entire series.
Grandma Dot absolutely steals every scene she is in. Readers who love the found family element of this series will be absolutely delighted with how much she features here.
The holiday backdrop does not soften what Gabby goes through in this book — if anything it makes the stakes feel higher. Two missing children on Christmas Eve. Snow falling. Night closing in. And Gabby pushing herself through visions that would break a lesser person because somebody has to and in River Bend that somebody is always going to be her.
Cozy and creepy in equal measure. Festive and frightening in all the right ways. This is the book to press into the hands of anyone who loves a good Christmas mystery — and it is also the book that will turn a casual reader into a full series devotee before New Year's Eve.