This is the third book of the Haven's Rock series, a spinoff of the Rockton series. I've read every book to date of both series and highly recommend them. The author has a real touch for creating an air of menace in this isolated, dangerous environment where it is so easy to get lost, and getting lost can be lethal. Once the snow covers your footprints, it's difficult to find your way back, and if the cold doesn't kill you, the predators might. Casey and her husband Eric are two of the founding members of Haven's Rock. Casey is pregnant, and she and Eric are nervous about it, but so far, she is doing well. Then some things happen that suggest that women may be targeted when they are outside the town. But who, among their carefully vetted group, could be doing this? I never guessed who the culprit was. I received an e-ARC from publisher St. Martin's Press/Minotaur Books via NetGalley, and voluntarily read and reviewed this book.

Reading this during a couple of chilly days really made this story feel real and I was sucked into the town of Haven's Rock as a storm hits, women are being attacked and going missing, and Casey is coming up on her due date which has its own joys and fears. Haven's Rock may be small and hidden in the Yukon but so many things continue to happen, which is understandable when the residents are on the run and need protection. I love the duo of Casey and Eric, they work so well together and it is easy to see how strongly they love each other. The other long term residents, like Gunnar, Kendra, Yolanda, Will, and April who make up the core and help solve these cases are also mostly easy to like and I keep holding my breath so that nothing bad happens to them. So, this is another great book in the Haven's Rock series, full of twists, thrills, and so much cold weather! Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the chance to dive back into the town of Haven's Rock and have another thrilling read!

This is the third book in the Haven's Rock series. Full disclosure while I have read the initial series starter, I have not yet read book two. Set in the Yukon wilderness, Haven's Rock is a secret sanctuary town for those seeking to disappear from their previous lives (often due to some form of danger) and start over. Detective Casey Duncan and her husband Eric Dalton oversee law enforcement in this 70-person community. On this particular outing, a young woman is drugged and dragged into the surrounding forest at what is assumed to be an attempted rape. As a blizzard threatens, an investigation is instigated. But when the body of a local woman is found in a bizarre tableau, Casey and Eric must begin to view things in a different light. Is their villain a rapist or a psychopath? And who, in their closed community could be capable of such violence? Complicating the investigation is both the blizzard and Casey's advanced complication-laden first pregnancy. I have mixed feelings about this series. While it is exciting, and I am getting to know the ensemble cast, I'm having a hard time relating to the dynamics of the set-up of Haven's Rock itself. There are aspects that are too far-fetched to overlook and things that I feel would not have been overlooked in setting up such a sanctuary. I found myself shaking my head at times with some of the neglected infrastructure that should have been a basic tenet. I am willing to read more in this series (largely due to the characters), but I'm also hoping to have at least some of my doubts assuaged. My thanks to NetGalley, St. Martin's Press / Minotaur Books for providing the early arc of Cold as Hell for review. The opinions are strictly my own.

3-3.5 stars This struck me as a Yukon cold winter wilderness version of an Agatha Christie house party murder mystery. An isolated community of individuals brought there by a need to escape their old lives and hide out, when suddenly women are being attacked, presumably by a member of said community. The attacker mystery was fine, but there were so many side tracks, largely thanks to narrator Casey's advanced state of pregnancy. I just did not connect with her or the other characters. I did not know when I selected this novel that it was part of an already established series that was an offshoot of a previous series. There's a lot of backstory, most of it unexplained when alluded to, and that just made it harder to follow. I think this one might have been better for me had I read the preceding books in the series. But, frankly, I am not interested enough in this group of characters to do that. The writings fine, just maybe too focused on the principal character. Thanks to Minotaur Books and NetGalley for sharing a complimentary advance copy of the book; this is my voluntary and honest opinion.