A Christmas cookie stuffed with murder, secrets and cold revelations
I sincerely thank Bookouture for providing me with a copy of the senior readers through Netgalley in exchange for my honest comments. Opening the winter visitors is more like accepting the iron key to the Weyman Family Manor. This snow-covered highland castle shrouded in a frozen, icy lake instead of accepting a book. From the moment I walked into the hall, I felt like a suffocating fly on the wall, watching the lies uncovered, the secrets stirred, and the shadows spread under the flashing lights of Christmas lights. It’s not just a holiday thriller. It was a Christmas cookie stuffed with fear, deception and fatal revelation, long after the ending, I wandered with me at the same time, the fire was put out, and the last page turned.
The books you read and then there are creepy books Consumption of you All. BP Walter’s winter visitors are not only stories I read in the roaring fire. Eventually, it was a storm I walked into, a frost that frost frost on my bones, a secret that made my mouth open more than once. The Weiman family reunited under a roof. Wrapped gifts, forced smiles, and then under all this? The value of the secret twenty years is buried in the depths of frost. From the first page, I was permanently frozen in my seat, breathing like the icy lake itself. Walter painted Weyman’s family Christmas in such an addictive atmosphere, and I felt claustrophobia indulged in me like a heavy wool blanket, with a comfortable surface but a suffocating underneath. George, a feminine politician, Ken, Hollywood action star and the youngest GP Ralph. All the brothers, all the liars, were bound so sinister that I could almost hear the whispers between the lines.
The brothers returned to the estate under the gaze of their powerful grandmother. But under the festive facade, the tension is enough to slice the wire. Then he arrived, stranger. Bright blue eyes, storm on the back, and the accusations on the lips threaten everything. But by morning he was dead, and a golden ornament pierced his heart. One of them did it. But who? There are more people who are cold, why?
I caught it the most completely, swallowing one chapter, like tearing it into wrapping paper, never knowing what surprises to wait for below. Walter not only sets up a scene. He locked you inside. The double schedule of Christmas 2005 and Christmas 2025 cleverly weaves me back to 2005 and then moves me to twenty years after 2025, each revelation deprives another layer of the family’s well-crafted lies.
Every point of view, brother, mother, and most importantly, Eileen Weyman, the patriarch, will make the tension thicker. Walter’s conversation made me live in the mind of the Weymans, and everyone was less reliable than the last one until I was almost full of expectations. Ah, Erin. The queen of the house, sharp, witty and grand authority. She reminded me of the woman I knew, the kind of reign that dominated the room with raised eyebrows and tailored comments. I admire her. Her graceful and rich in size, her dark little ironic humor straight through the tension. Her words echoed in my mind long after I closed the book:”I can deal with death, and it’s a life you should be afraid of. ” She is Dowager Countess, and she meets Miss Marple, grandmother’s nonsense wisdom.
“Unless someone intends to murder me at night, I will meet everyone for breakfast tomorrow morning.”
Those twists and turns. My God, twists and turns. Just when I thought I had untied the last layer of this Christmas gift, Walter pulled another ribbon, another secret, another revelation, and made me colder. What the authors are best at is putting you in trouble. Outside, the blizzard is violent, but inside, another blizzard beer. Greed, power, tragedy, betrayal, everything is there, wrapped in a ribbon of suspense. Every character feels unreliable, every smile is fake, and every secret will detonate the bomb. When the twists and turns came, I was covered. This book is everything I long for in a holiday thriller. The beauty of white Christmas revolves around truth and the cruelty of murder. A frightening, shocking, vibrant family drama that makes Türkiye look tame. It’s witty, sinister and addictive. “Winter Visitors” is like taking apart the best now imaginable, in the layer of conspiracy until the last shocking reveal.
You will also be able to enter the Snow Heights Manor in Weymans September 23, 2025. From icy lakes to glittering Christmas trees, from stolen secrets to ornaments of blood,”Winter Visitors” is A storm, you won’t escape easily. Shocking, suspense and totally exciting, this is a holiday party that you will never forget.
