Brrrr! Blizzard Fiction

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I don’t know about you, but I’m fed up with slogging through the snow and slip-sliding my way to work. What I really want to do is curl up on my couch with my fuzzy afghan around me (I might be the only person who doesn’t own a Snuggie!) and read. And I don’t mind reading about the snow and cold, as long as I’m not in it! So how about some novels that take place during blizzards? You can compare your experiences with the protagonists in these stories.

A Christmas Blizzard by Garrison Keillor.
A wealthy and depressed man bound for Christmas in the tropics is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota to visit an ailing aunt, arriving just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard.

Chill Factor by Sandra Brown.
When a serial killer who leaves a blue ribbon at the site of his victims’ last sightings appears in the peaceful town of Cleary, North Carolina, police chief Dutch Burton finds the case complicated by his ex-wife’s disappearance during a blizzard.

Rose in a Storm by Jon Katz.
Assisting the farmer throughout a bitterly cold late-winter lambing season, Rose, a tough and dedicated sheep dog, finds her job complicated by a terrible blizzard, during which the farmer is injured, supplies are dwindling, and the coyotes are circling.

Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman.
A tale based on the deadly 1984 North Dakota blizzard follows the experiences of a small rural community devoted to its high-school athletics and its citizens’ minor scandals, until a dangerous storm impacts the town in unsettling and powerful ways.

Silent Snow by Steve Thayer.
In the midst of a Minnesota blizzard, investigative reporter Rick Beanblossom searches for clues in the Lindbergh kidnapping that may help him find his own kidnapped son.

Aunt Dimity, Snowbound by Nancy Atherton.
After being caught in a blizzard, Lori Shepherd takes refuge in Ladythorne Abbey, the former home of the late Lucasta DeClerke, where she uncovers a plot to steal a priceless DeClerke family heirloom.

Catalogue of Death by Jo Dereske.
Determined to keep the library open during a fierce blizzard, librarian and amateur sleuth Miss Wilhelmina Zukas becomes an eyewitness to the explosive death of billionaire Franklin Harrington and, fearing that the local philanthropist’s plans to fund a new town library are in jeopardy, sets out to investigate his murder.

Cast A Blue Shadow: An Ohio Amish Mystery by Paul L. Gaus.
When a college-aged Mennonite girl with a checkered past turns up bloodied and battered during the worst blizzard of the year, the subsequent investigation will implicate her in the killing of the wealthy mother of her boyfriend.