{"id":340,"date":"2007-01-16T19:54:44","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T02:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=340"},"modified":"2021-06-02T19:15:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T23:15:02","slug":"ghosts-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/340","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts in the Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghosts in the Snow (2004) Tamara Siler Jones<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Ghosts<\/a><\/p>\n

Dubric is the head of security at Castle Faldorrah–a matter of self-preservation, since he is haunted by the ghosts of those who are murdered at the castle, until their killers come to justice. In the past there has been only an occasional killing, but now young servant women and girls are being gruesomely murdered, and not only the ghosts are after Dubric to find the killer.<\/p>\n

Ghosts in the Snow<\/em> is a combination fantasy novel and murder mystery–although a bit on the gruesome side. The murders are bloody and described in detail. Gruesome, but it shows the horror of the the murders, and how they affected the castle and the people in the castle.<\/p>\n

I found this interesting as both a mystery and a fantasy. The world was similar enough to ours that the story required only minimal world building, but there were enough details dropped to draw your interest. <\/p>\n

The mystery element was also good, although there were a few things I didn’t care for. The murders were more gruesome than I personal care for, and I’m not particularly fond of reading the point of view of the hidden murderer. I suppose it’s interesting in a way to see the kind of mind that could perpetrate such horrors, but it’s not particularly my favorite. I’d rather have left that part out all together, and read only Dubric’s point of view.<\/p>\n

However, despite that, I still thoroughly enjoyed the story. The dialog was good, there were several sub-threads that I quite enjoyed. I also very much liked the characters. In addition to Dubric, there were plenty of minor characters who were nicely developed.<\/p>\n

All in all, a good first book.
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ghosts in the Snow (2004) Tamara Siler Jones Dubric is the head of security at Castle Faldorrah–a matter of self-preservation, since he is haunted by the ghosts of those who are murdered at the castle, until their killers come to justice. In the past there has been only an occasional killing, but now young servant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,8,291],"tags":[352],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-mystery","category-paper","tag-tamara-siler-jones"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8702,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/8702","url_meta":{"origin":340,"position":0},"title":"Ghosts in the Snow","author":"Michelle","date":"January 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Ghosts in the Snow (2004) Tamara Siler Jones Dubric sees ghosts. But not all ghosts, just the ghosts of the murdered. Cursed by the Goddess Malanna after his wife\u2019s murder forty-three summers before, Dubric had long struggled to ignore the horrid images of wrongful death. ... He often wondered if\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "7.5\/10"","block_context":{"text":"7.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/7-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ghosts-in-the-Snow.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9101,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/9101","url_meta":{"origin":340,"position":1},"title":"Threads of Malice","author":"Michelle","date":"June 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Threads of Malice (2005) Tamara Siler Jones Holy crap. I had completely forgotten how dark this book is. I mean, extremely dark. Descriptions of torture and rape and then the murder of the victim. And by this we see the torture from the victim's POV, not just Dubric seeing the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fantasy"","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/fantasy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/Books\/images\/Threads-of-Malice.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":474,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/474","url_meta":{"origin":340,"position":2},"title":"Valley of the Soul","author":"Michelle","date":"November 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Valley of the Soul (2006) Tamara Siler Jones Valley of the Soul is the third book in the Dubric Byerly mystery series. I read Ghosts in the Snow and enjoyed it, and decided to order the rest of series. Unfortunately, Threads of Malice was out of print, so I had\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fantasy"","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/fantasy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14019,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/14019","url_meta":{"origin":340,"position":3},"title":"Powered by Ghosts","author":"Michelle","date":"February 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Powered by Ghosts (2020) Kaje Harper (Necromancer) Set in alternate 1963 Darien is free of his ghosts (literally) and has become Silas' apprentice. However, he still has work to do, being a necromancer, and so the two end up dealing with a ghost problem, in a town where the local\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "eBook"","block_context":{"text":"eBook","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/ebook"},"img":{"alt_text":"Powered by Ghosts","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Powered-by-Ghosts.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12794,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12794","url_meta":{"origin":340,"position":4},"title":"P.S. I Spook You","author":"Michelle","date":"April 27, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"P.S. I Spook You (2019) S.E. Harmon (The Spectral Files) Couple of things to note, start with the fact this is self published, so parts of it are a little rough. Not typos or anything, but there story could have been tightened up in a few places where I got\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "7\/10"","block_context":{"text":"7\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/7-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"PS I Spook You","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PS-I-Spook-You.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13941,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/13941","url_meta":{"origin":340,"position":5},"title":"Marked by Death","author":"Michelle","date":"February 6, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Marked by Death (2020) Kaje Harper (Necromancer) Set in an alternate 1963. Darien is out of alternatives. Demons or ghosts, whatever keeps invading his mind and body is quickly driving him crazy. So he seeks out the town's necromancer, in the hope he'll be able to help. Silas has power,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "7\/10"","block_context":{"text":"7\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/7-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Marked by Death","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Marked-by-Death.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}