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"suspense laden thriller"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted July 15, 2005

The quiet tranquil mountain town of Cleary, North Carolina is no longer serene as five women have disappeared without a trace. Authorities and loved ones fear the worst because a blue ribbon was left in the vicinity where each woman was last seen. Lily Martin doesn't think the disappearances will Read more...

"Chilling Romantic Suspense"
Reviewed by Sheri Melnick
Posted August 22, 2005

Brown delivers an eerie tale of a serial killer in this, her latest suspense thriller. The setting is the wintry mountains of North Carolina, near the small town of Cleary, where five women have disappeared without a trace over the past two years. With her divorce from local Read more...

"A gripping mystery"
Reviewed by Judith Saul
Posted September 17, 2005

There is a killer on the loose in the small town of Cleary. Chief Dutch Burton are frantically searching for this killer, who is in the habit of leaving a blue ribbon at the scene. Lilly Martin magazine editor and Dutch's ex-wife has returned to Cleary to finalize the Read more...

Summary

Suspense abounds in this gripping new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown, in which a successful magazine editor is trapped in her remote cabin with a man believed to be a serial killer.

Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town -- the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Not so, lately. Four women have disappeared from Cleary over the past two years. And there's always a blue ribbon left near the spot where each of the women was last seen. There are no bodies, no other clues, and no suspicion as to who their abductor might be. And now, another woman has disappeared without a trace.

It is to this backdrop that Lilly Martin returns to close the sale of her mountain cabin, marking the end of her turbulent eight-year marriage to Dutch Burton, Cleary's chief of police. Dutch's reluctance to let her go isn't Lilly's only obstacle. As she's trying to outrun a snowstorm, her car skids on the icy road and strikes a man who emerges from the woods on foot. She recognizes the injured man as Ben Tierney, whom she'd met the previous summer. They're forced to wait out the storm in the cabin, but as the hours of their confinement mount, Lilly begins to wonder if the greatest danger to her safety isn't the blizzard outside, but the mysterious man right beside her.

Is Ben Tierney the feared abductor? Or is he who he claims to be...her rescuer from harm and from the tragedy that haunts her?

The compelling characters, sexual tension, and stunning plot twists in Sandra Brown's Chill Factor combine to create a page-turner that will keep readers guessing until the very end.