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Cold Dawn (Black Falls #3)
by
Carla Neggers (Goodreads Author)
The small town of Black Falls, Vermont, finally feels safe again—until search-and-rescue expert Rose Cameron discovers a body, burnt almost beyond recognition. Almost. Rose is certain that she knows the victim's identity
and that his death was no accident.Nick Martini also suspects an arsonist's deliberate hand. Another fire killed an arson investigator in California month...more
Paperback, 379 pages
Published
October 26th 2010
by Mira
(first published 2010)
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I received this book for review from the Vine program. Here’s my take on it:
This is my second Carla Neggers book to review (and also the second in a series). Cold Dawn is a romantic suspense set in rural Vermont. Neggers does an outstanding job of using atmospheric mood and setting. One can almost feel the cold, the lonely harshness of Vermont in February.
Cold Dawn is the third book in the Black Falls series. Like The Whisper, this story suffered from a cast of thousands where I didn’t know who...more
This is my second Carla Neggers book to review (and also the second in a series). Cold Dawn is a romantic suspense set in rural Vermont. Neggers does an outstanding job of using atmospheric mood and setting. One can almost feel the cold, the lonely harshness of Vermont in February.
Cold Dawn is the third book in the Black Falls series. Like The Whisper, this story suffered from a cast of thousands where I didn’t know who...more
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COLD DAWN by Carla Neggers is a romantic suspense set in present day Black Falls,Vermont. It is the third in "Black Falls" series (#1 Cold Pursuit,#2 Cold River) but can be read as a stand alone.It is well written,with a intriguing plot,characters that will charm your pants off and keep you on the edge of your seat. It has danger, romance,passion,murder,adventure,suspense,tragedy,FBI,smoke jumpers,search and rescue,unhealed wounds,healing, finding love,diabolical killer,what else do you need?
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Carla Neggers is in her element creating mysteries that are interesting and steeped in suspense. Her mysteries are simply that; I don't consider them as romantic suspense, and although there is an element of romance it's more perfunctory than plot-driven.
Cold Dawn continues the mystery of arson, murder and secrets in the small Vermont town of Black Falls, in which many familiar characters are involved in one way or another. It would help to read the books in order as plots from earlier books ar...more
Cold Dawn continues the mystery of arson, murder and secrets in the small Vermont town of Black Falls, in which many familiar characters are involved in one way or another. It would help to read the books in order as plots from earlier books ar...more
First off, this is the last book in the series. There are a lot of characters. This book does not stand well on its own. If you have not read the previous books, you will be lost. If you have read the previous books, you may still get lost, especially if you have not read them in a while. There are a lot of characters, and it gets really hard to keep track of them when you are just beginning to read the book. Later on, it is not so bad.
Parts of the book were engaging. Many parts were not. It fel...more
Parts of the book were engaging. Many parts were not. It fel...more
I started reading Cold Dawn not realizing it was book three in a series. I want to be fair since I jumped into a story already in progress but....
Smoke jumpers, paramedics, special forces, search and rescue, secret service, reporter.... Oh my! Each character was so full of drama it was just a bit too much. Also with the exception of Grit, the Navy SEAL, all the characters seemed cold, not just professionally, but also personally. For a group of people that are family and/or grew up together, the...more
Smoke jumpers, paramedics, special forces, search and rescue, secret service, reporter.... Oh my! Each character was so full of drama it was just a bit too much. Also with the exception of Grit, the Navy SEAL, all the characters seemed cold, not just professionally, but also personally. For a group of people that are family and/or grew up together, the...more
Cold Dawn is the third installment in the Black Falls series. I haven't read the previous two Cold Pursuit and Cold River but understand the premise of this novel is a continuation of an ongoing storyline in the previous books. It is not strictly necessary to have read them to enjoy Cold Dawn, Neggers provides enough background to put the current plot and characters in context, though I'd recommend it.
Neggers has created a solid mystery, an asassin who likes fire seems to be stalking Black Hill...more
Neggers has created a solid mystery, an asassin who likes fire seems to be stalking Black Hill...more
I love Grit, Charlie and Sean. You can take the rest of these characters, put them in a basket and shove them off Cameron Mountain! Maybe my frustration has more to do with Carla Neggers' style of writing a story backwards. I just read Sean and Hannah's story, Cold River, and it was an excerise in frustration also. Now, Cold Dawn is set no more than a month later and relates events that have never taken place in either of the two previous books. To top that, there are no viable suspects for the...more
This is the third and final in the Black Falls series. I have read other Carla Negger's books and was prepared for the reserve of the characters, but it seems extreme in this novel. Being the third in a series and being the first one I've read in the series, I expected some difficulty in connecting to the story and the characters, but Cold Dawn had so many characters and so many storylines that it was doubly difficult. Rose is a search and rescue volunteer and dog trainer. She is the youngest an...more
From original review: having not read the recent books in this series, I was completely stymied as to who most of the characters were and trying to keep them straight was WAY more taxing than I wanted in a light romance read.
After re-reading the whole series: There was a lot of review in this book about the happenings of the first two, but not as much as in Cold River. There really are a lot of people to keep track of and it's definitely easier to know who people are if you've read Cold Pursuit...more
After re-reading the whole series: There was a lot of review in this book about the happenings of the first two, but not as much as in Cold River. There really are a lot of people to keep track of and it's definitely easier to know who people are if you've read Cold Pursuit...more
I found this confusing and boring, rather than exciting. The setting changes from Vermont to Beverly Hills, California. There is one large family with a lot of smoke jumpers, and someone is going around committing arson and burning people to death, A character named Rose, who has a search and rescue dog named Ranger, seems to have slept with most of the male characters. I cannot recall if I have read anything else by Carla Neggers before, but I doubt that I'll search for more of her books.
It was an OK story - a little confussing in the way it was writen but OK. But, I should have looked more carefully on the cover for the words: Romantic Sounds Audio. That would have warned me. The sex was kept totally under control until the last little bit and then the graphic sex scene had to inserted, I guess it's just the way of romances. YUCK!
Read this without having read the other books in the series, and was occasionally bewildered by references to earlier events. Clearly this is a series that should be have been read in order! Neggers evokes the rural Vermont setting well, but aside from that, this is pretty generic romantic suspense.
This seems a transitional or catch-all book - too big a cast of characters and too many mentions of what had happened previously. I definitely would've read the earlier two books first, if I had known of them. In spite of these things, this was a fairly nice read of a Vermont winter, and an arson mystery.
Enjoyed it and easy to keep track of characters - as this is my car/purse book, this is important. Suspense, adventure and a fast read. However, should have saved this book for summer - didn't need the realistic discriptions of a cold VT winter - not with this winter.
It was good, however, I'm sure it would have been better if I would have read the two books before it in the series. I've always liked the author's books that I've read but I don't think this was up to par with the previous books of hers that I have read.
Third in a series, but doesn't work as a stand alone. There's too much back history.
What I managed to read of it showed that the writing itself is excellent, but it truly shouldn't be read before attempting to read the others in the series.
What I managed to read of it showed that the writing itself is excellent, but it truly shouldn't be read before attempting to read the others in the series.
I didn't realize this was the last book in a series when I began reading it. There are a lot of characters to keep track of with backstories that must've been fleshed out in the previous books. I enjoyed the story, but there were just too many subplots to keep up with. Good book, but not enough to motivate me to read the others in the series.
Read this book without reading the first two books in the series; wish I had. It was hard to follow all the inter-twined relationships and past history of the arsonist. The book had several missed spelled words and grammatical errors. I'm far from an english major and was still able to spot them while reading the story. But this book still saved a long boring flight without inflight entertainment.
This was a little confusing because I apparently missed one of the books in the series. My recommendation is to read the books in ordcer. That will make the story easier for any reader to follow. Otherwise you are left very confused with the characters and plot that ties all 4 of the books together.
I didn't read the first two books of this series and consequently was lost reading this book; the plot depended heavily on events & relationships I can only assume happened in the other books.
didn't read the others in the series, maybe that's the disconnect between my rating and that of the others. I thought it was a pretty mediocre thriller.
Rose found a burnt body and thought she knew who it was. Nick came along and thinks that the death was not an "accident". This was an ok book and lots of characters to keep track of.
I liked it, and the characters are carried over from Cold Pursuit. I really like this author. Good story, good mix of mystery, action and romance.
In Cold Dawn, Carla Neggers has crafted an absorbing tale of suspense that kept me guessing till the very end. She deftly managed to spread suspicion to almost every character in the book and throw in a few red herrings, too. The romantic angles had plenty of tension and she carried it nicely throughout.
Not your everyday romantic suspense, there were more plot twists than I would have thought possible, but she left no annoying loose ends. Her characters were multi-dimensional and by the end of...more
Not your everyday romantic suspense, there were more plot twists than I would have thought possible, but she left no annoying loose ends. Her characters were multi-dimensional and by the end of...more
Maybe if I had read the first book in the series I would have enjoyed this more but it was very hard to enjoy just starting with this book.
Too many characters, too much repetition, cliched story line and endless recapping of events from previous books in this series.
Sep 18, 2012
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I like Carla Neggers. This book kept my attention without being too detailed. A good mystery with just enough romance.
My least favorite of the Black Falls trilogy, by far. There wasn't a lot of action, and it seemed to be more about thrown together closures to loose ends.
I enjoy her series books very much. My only complaint is they should release them closer together.
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Carla Neggers started writing at a young age, when she'd grab a pad and pen and climb a tree to spin stories. She grew up in rural western Massachusetts with six brothers and sisters and assorted dogs, cats, pigs, chickens, sheep, guinea pigs and one cow. Her father was a Dutch sailor who immigrated to the U.S. after World War II, and her mother hails from the Florida P...more
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Carla Neggers started writing at a young age, when she'd grab a pad and pen and climb a tree to spin stories. She grew up in rural western Massachusetts with six brothers and sisters and assorted dogs, cats, pigs, chickens, sheep, guinea pigs and one cow. Her father was a Dutch sailor who immigrated to the U.S. after World War II, and her mother hails from the Florida P...more
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