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Winterman: a tense serial killer thriller Paperback – February 15, 2019

by Alex Walters (Author)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 676 ratings
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The War is Behind Him. But his battle has only just begun...

DI Ivan Winterman is a man with a troubled past. The Blitz has left his young son dead and his wife seriously injured. He has made enemies in high places and, with his career going nowhere, he returns to his home town in East Anglia, seeking to rebuild his life in a country gripped by post-war austerity and the coldest winter on record.

As the first snow begins to fall, a drunken ex-clergyman stumbles on the semi-mummified body of a small child concealed in a ruined cottage. Days later, a second similar child's body is found in a Fenland dyke. Both bodies have been dead for several years, preserved in the Fens, the cause of death unknown.

Winterman, supported by a small team of assorted misfits, finds himself leading the investigation, uncovering a web of connections and secrets in the small rural community. When a further murder victim is discovered, Winterman discovers that the secrets are darker and the threat far more immediate than he'd ever envisaged.

And, as the snow finally begins to thaw over the Fens, Winterman realises that his worst nightmares are about to come true…

Alex Walters is the best selling and critically-acclaimed author of the DI Alec McKay series, Winterman is a tense and gripping serial killer thriller which will appeal to fans of authors like Stuart Macbride, Damien Boyd and Mark Edwards.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloodhound Books (February 15, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 434 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1912986159
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1912986156
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.24 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 1.09 x 8 inches
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    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 676 ratings

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Alex Walters

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Alex has worked in the oil industry, broadcasting and banking and has run a consultancy working mainly in the criminal justice sector including police, prisons and probation.

As Michael Walters, he published three crime thrillers set in modern-day Mongolia, now re-published as by Alex Walters in completely new, re-edited versions. As Alex Walters he has written two thrillers set in and around Manchester featuring the undercover officer, Marie Donovan, Trust No-One and Nowhere to Hide. Late Checkout was the first in a series of crime thrillers featuring, alongside Marie Donovan, the rather distinctive DCI Kenny Murrain, who has subsequently appeared in four more books, Dark Corners, Snow Fallen, Stilled Voices and Life Remains. Alex is also the author of the DI Alec McKay series set in and around Scotland's Black Isle, which currently comprises five books, Candles and Roses, Death Parts Us, Their Final Act, Expiry Date and For Their Sins, published by Bloodhound Books, with a sixth book coming in 2022. He had also written a standalone historical thriller called Winterman, also published by Bloodhound Books. His latest series is set in the Peak District and features DI Annie Delamere. The first three books in the series, Small Mercies, Lost Hours and Bad Terms, are available now from Canelo.

Alex lives in the Black Isle in the Scottish Highlands where he runs the Solus Or Writing Retreat with his wife, occasional sons and frequent cats.

He can be contacted at: mike@whitmuir.com

Website:https://www.alexwaltersauthor.com/

Twitter: @mikewalters60

Facebook: www.facebook.com/alexwaltersauthor/

Details of the Solus Or Writing Retreat can be found at: www.solusorwritingretreat.co.uk

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Judithhb
5.0 out of 5 stars Long dead bodies, two murders and the coldest winter on record
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2019
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A new book by another favourite author – Winterman by Alex Walters. Have you seen my earlier reviews of his books – Candles and Roses and Their Final Act?

Well, this time we are in the Fens district in East Anglia, England. Set in the period immediately following the end of the Second World War when food and fuel are still restricted by rationing. Enter DI Ivan Winterman straight from the Met who finds himself back in his hometown and in the small local police station manned by his colleagues DC Hoxton, DC Marsh, PC Brain and the indomitable Mrs Sherringham and her part-time assistant Mary.

Almost immediately the body of a young girl is found and very soon two others are discovered and then two murders are committed. What’s happening in this quiet little backwater?

It’s in the middle of the coldest winter on record and the deep snow hampers the team’s efforts as they try to unravel/discover the motives for all these deaths.

There are twists and turns aplenty in this book. The blurb attracted me immediately, and I felt compelled to keep reading once started.

The characters are well drawn and believable The author’s writing skills are descriptive and moody and I felt drawn back to post war Britain where I grew up amid the chaos and the questions as to how we got there – didn’t we win the war?

The ending was totally unexpected and disturbing. I recommend this book to all lovers of thrillers. I give it five stars and thank Bloodhound Books for the chance to read the advance copy and to review this book.
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Grace
4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable read - spoiler alert
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2024
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The narrator was excellent. I liked the way all the characters were developed and portrayed. I was disappointed, though, that the missing brother mystery was not solved and that the “bad guy” got away.
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Carole Porter
5.0 out of 5 stars He's a keeper
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2019
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Really enjoyed this book.Well writen & thought provoking
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Big & Nerdy
4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed this one
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2019
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It’s only fair to say that I most always enjoy British detective stories. Even so, I think this one was well written and thought out. It does however, read like a pre-quel or like a very obvious way to start a longer series. With that said, it does a good job of doing just that. It involves you in characters lives enough so you feel attached and yet leaves you realizing you’ll have to keep going to find out what more. It’s a good starter for a set of main characters.
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Alicja
4.0 out of 5 stars Snow, Snow, Snow
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2019
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Interesting characters, entertaining when it is well written, and offers the reader sometime to keep going forward. Thank you.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful story
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2019
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This is a great murder mystery set just after the war. The writing is excellent, the characters intriguing, and the mystery a doozy. Great author
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Bonnye Reed Fry
5.0 out of 5 stars A really good read~!
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2019
Winterman is a historical British police procedural, taking place in the farms and fen country just out of Ely, shortly after the end of WWII with flashbacks to 1940. We have stalwart protagonists with hearts in the right place and high morals, and we have beaten down bad guys. We have children, present and past, used as pawns and women who lost much in the war but managed to make their way through. And we have a police presence working without sufficient personnel and funds, with private and public systems rotting from the inside out. It is late winter 1947 and food is still scarce and rationed, clothing, vehicles, rubbers, gasoline, too. Life.

DI Winterman is wounded in heart and soul and brushed off to the hinterlands to keep him quiet and out of sight. He finds himself replacing a DI who has been gone for over two years in a tiny shop comprised of DC Hoxton with eight years on the force, and DC Marsh with only one year's experience. Mrs. Sheringham is the stalwart ruler of the shop, and she is assisted by a part-time clerk, widowed Mary Griffiths Ford. They have been issued a stout bicycle and an older Wolseley and Mrs. Sheringham might have a fine typewriter but nothing else is available to assist in their policing duties. The general consensus is that the office will eventually be incorporated with that of a larger community so there is no feeling of security by any of the crew. The weather does not help. Day after day, week after week it snows. Oh, and they have a body. That of a nine, maybe a ten-year-old girl, partially preserved in the fen, a body dead 5 or 10 years that turns up in an old abandoned house and is discovered by the retired Reverend Joseph Fisher whom local gossip fashions into a very bad guy and a drunk who was responsible for the death of his wife and young daughter back during the war.

And then the bodies begin to pile up. DC Marsh goes missing. Eventually, help arrives under the direction of Detective Superintendent Spooner of the Cambridge Constabulary. PC Bryan Brain is the only police presence in the current hot spot, Framley, and the weather has him isolated. Then Winterman and crew are snowed-in in Framley. And the death toll continues to mount...

Winterman is an excellent novel, one that keeps you guessing, and rooting for the good guys. But just who are the good guys?

I received a free electronic copy of this novel on February 25, 2019, from Netgalley, Alex Walters, and Bloodhound Books in exchange for an honest review. Thank you all for sharing your hard work with me.
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A. Douglas
5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable post WW2 crime read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2019
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I usually go for British current day crime reads but thought I would give this a go. DI Ivan Winterman is posted out in the sticks to keep him out of trouble. He has a bit of a reputation but is also a very good officer.

Bodies start to appear and they are of small children a long time dead. Who is leaving these bodies for him to find and why? Fresh bodies begin to appear revealing that something not quite right has been going on. Some very wealthy and influential men had taken advantage of the war whereby children where moved around and left with people.

This gook is really engaging, well written and atmospheric. I really enjoyed the setting and hope there is going to be a second book in this charming series!
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JacquiH
4.0 out of 5 stars post WW2 serial murders in the snow
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 21, 2019
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There's a lot of snow in this thriller set in the cold winter of 1947 although I doubt many readers will remember it. Our London detective is transferred to deepest Norfolk, in the snow, and finds himself amidst murders, in the snow. Two murders occur back to back, in the snow, and then some semi mummified bodies of children turn up, you've guessed it, in the snow. There is an inordinate amount of description of the blasted snow and the even more blasting east winds across the Fens. The writing is good though and you certainly feel those chill winds and really wonder why everyone is going out in them to murder folk. The characters are well defined,the policing steady and resolute for those days and the descriptions of life in post war but still heavily rationed days is all too true. I'm not convinced about a few of the chapters, fortunately short, where there is a person, we know not who in most cases, pondering over his life; don't know who and never find out who or why in most cases. We have the mummified children but are left not knowing much if anything about them - possibly due to lack of records kept for evacuees or loss of said records in bombings or post war "tidying up". Probably realistic but frustrating. There's a bit of romance for our policemen and I suppose that that will continue in the next book. He's a "good sort of chap" and the reader roots for him - in the snow. He's pleasantly tolerant of homosexuals which I feel is odd for the times and the place - 1940s rural Norfolk. Sorry. Still, a good read and kept me out of mischief, even in the snow!!
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sharon gunn
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliantly written
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2019
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Another wonderful thrilling book by Alex Walters. From the start I was hooked and couldn't put it down. I was worried that his last book, snow fallen, was going to be hard
to follow but they just keep coming and getting better. Alex Walter's is without a doubt an author to rival Val McDermott, John Connelly and any other big names in this genre. The guys a genius of the descriptive word. Im in the book with the characters.
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MarinaL
3.0 out of 5 stars Engaging and well written
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2019
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This is engaging and well written. The main character, Winterman, is likeable and I had a lot of empathy for him. The time period of the story is really fascinating - it starts with the disappearance of a child in 1940 and then cuts to 1947, when DI Winterman is posted to a remote part of Norfolk and suddenly finds himself knee deep in historical child murders. I spent many a late night reading this and as I approached the final chapters, I expected great things, but it all just kind of fizzled out on a disappointing anti-climax. It wasn't particularly clear as to what exactly had happened to the dead children and it was equally unclear as to the role and precise identity of the perpetrators of the murders. But the book does very effectively describe the chaos and austerity of the immediate post-war years and it was an enjoyable read, on balance.
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Adele
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent story line
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2023
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Read the majority of Alex Walters books enjoyed them all .
Another well written story with lots of twists and turns in the plot
Highly recommended
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