Jeremy Winter Series

Coming of Winter by Tom Threadgill
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Jeremy Winter is a middle-aged FBI agent on the cusp of retirement. Each story has a beginning-middle-end murder mystery that comes to a satisfactory conclusion. No story is for the faint-of-heart, as Jeremy’s FBI specialty has been serial killers. The Jeremy Winter Series, written by Tom Threadgill, is three novels to date, each in the area of 10 hours of listening in unabridged audiobook format. Coming of Winter, Dead of Winter, and Winter’s Fury. Read them in sequence, or you’ll miss continuity.

A thread through the novels is Jeremy’s service as an FBI interrogator in Afganistan. He witnessed illegal behavior by his superior but has kept quiet. The superior is now married to a presidential candidate and fears a leak might damage political aspirations. There is also a thread of Jeramy’s budding romance with another FBI agent in addition to the unsolved murder of his pregnant wife while he was deployed.

All were released in 2019 by Silverton Agency. Books one and two are narrated by Austin Walp, book three by Drew Bott. IMO, Austin is the better of the two, but that’s just an opinion. My reaction when starting book three was, “What’s wrong with this narration?” So … there is that. Bott’s voice for Jeramy didn’t work for me, high pitched and whiney for a guy in his late 40s. There is no explicit sex, no objectionable language, albeit some of the murders are on the grizzly side—good mystery and suspense.

At the end of book three, the author’s note tells us that there will be more Jeremy Winter stories.

Recommended for the murder mystery fan!