Cold Cold Heart

In Tami Hoag's Cold Cold Heart, this standalone thriller will leave you feeling chilled and numb after you finish the story. Dana Nolan was abducted in Minneapolis and taken hostage by a cold-blooded serial killer. She fought for her life and killed her abductor. But her former world as a rising TV reporter had changed forever in the blink of an eye. Though she survived as the 9th victim of Doc Holliday's reign of terror, she had suffered brain damage and scars and a mixed-up perception of reality. After months of rehab, she returns home to Shelby Hills, Indiana, to start her long road of recovery of her new life, while she heals and deals with her new situation. Everything's not as close as it appears to be for Dana. But she didn't want to be the focus on TV. What haunted her the most was the disappearance of her best friend Casey Grant. When a familiar face appears in her life, it started a chain reaction of events as she's on the hunt to find out what happened to her and to solve the mystery. She reunites with her former high school sweetheart Tim Carver and searches for clues and understanding. She also deals with her step-father's reelection campaign and more swirling questions and memories from the past. The closer she gets to the truth, it leads her to lurking danger. And in the end, she leans about the shocking truth and whodunit when it hit her real close to home.


This was a dark and spine-tingling stand-alone thriller from Tami Hoag. I did care for Dana and what emotinal hell she had been put through. Though she needed a break, I did become concern on her getting way too close to the truth and closer to the dark truth of it all. I did feel bad for John, who had grown up in a turbulent household and had dealt with his post-war afflictions of his own. He just wanted to live his own life. I did like the dual locations of Minneapolis and then in Shelby Mills, Indiana. It was a change of pace from her serials in Minneapolis. This has a lot of twists and turns to keep you bitting your tongue and shaking your head and moaning a lot. This has plenty of non-stop action, tons of drama, suspense and a hint of a mystery to keep you intrigued from first page to last.

Will you witness a cold cold heart tonight?