Snowdrifts is a psychological thriller written by Kathi Nidd. Andrea was beside herself with worry as she watched the snow piling up outside her window at 2:41 A.M. Joe should have been there last night for the dinner they had arranged to have with Meg, her little sister, who had come into town expressly to meet him. It would be their only chance to become acquainted before the gala New Year’s Eve wedding Andrea and Joe would hold at the Millerton Yacht Club. She liked to envision their guests toasting them in the glittering ballroom, but now she could only wonder and worry. Her calls and texts went unanswered as the hours ticked by. Meanwhile, Joe was having his own crisis. His brakes had failed as he attempted to navigate the icy roads, and his car had plummeted down a slope out of view of the roadway. He was trapped in his car and couldn’t break the glass of the window. Something was keeping his leg clamped down, and moving was excruciatingly painful. Then he realized that the screwdriver he had tossed into the front seat of the car was impaled in his leg. While he remembered the first aid rule about never removing impaled objects, he wondered if the screwdriver would break open his window. It would be awful pulling it out, but he needed to get out and summon help.

Kathi Nidd’s psychological thriller, Snowdrifts, is a gripping and terrifying story about thwarted love and the delusions of insanity. Joe is an attorney with an intimate knowledge of the circumstances surrounding his major client’s case. In circumstances eerily similar to those of Chase McGill, Joe had been accused of murdering a young woman when he was fifteen years old. His lawyer, Doug, had gotten him exonerated and had later become a friend and mentor. When Joe finished law school, Doug made him a partner in his law firm. Nidd’s plot is twisty and enticingly devious as she brings the reader into the worlds of Andrea and Joe. Watching the badly injured man as he fights to survive and get help is suspenseful, and Nidd’s descriptions of the wilderness he traverses are first-rate. Her villain is truly terrifying, and the tension that pervades this thriller keeps on getting ramped up throughout the story. Snowdrifts is taut, well-told and deliciously thrilling. It’s most highly recommended.

Snowdrifts is a thriller by Kathi Nidd that opens with Joe Sinclair and his estranged wife, Taryn, being stuck in a snowy wilderness after a car accident. As Joe wanders away to seek help, Taryn is rescued. Meanwhile, Andrea is worried sick about the whereabouts of her fiancé, and Chase is nervously waiting for his lawyer in a courthouse. As the story continues, the puzzle becomes more complex as an unsolved mystery in Joe’s past re-emerges. Worried about the strange behaviour of her sister, Andrea, Meg also recalls a family incident that she has conveniently tried to forget for a long time now. As everyone deals with Joe’s disappearance, the plot truly unravels. What follows is a day of reckoning for the main protagonists and it probably is not what you think it is.

Snowdrifts is a clever little thriller that happens in a small city in Canada. The disappearance of Joe Sinclair for a couple of days triggers a string of events that brings to the surface an unsolved local mystery, a new twist in a celebrated case, and a love triangle that threatens to be fatal. And in the center of this is Joe Sinclair, who is nowhere to be seen. Author Kathi Nidd seems to believe that to understand life better, we have to look back, and that all crimes committed - wittingly or unwittingly - will never go away. And when Snowdrifts rolls back and forth in a string of revelations, Nidd pieces together a story that is complex but also surprisingly simple. And this is perhaps one of the reasons why this novel is such a great read!