People are finding, and reading, Cold Inside, in spite of everything I’ve done with this one to buck the tedious trends of popular crime novels, and by that I mean I’ve deliberately not included any of the following:

• A first-person viewpoint that shifts between characters in each chapter, optionally where the chapter is named to show exactly which character is narrating that part
• An unreliable narrator (drunk, insane, just plain stupid, etc.)
• A rabidly militant protagonist cop, railing against authority for no apparent reason
• A protagonist with relationship issues, seemingly only to make the character ‘interesting’
• A book title suffixed on Amazon with ‘a gripping thriller with a twist you won’t see coming’
• A twist that leaves most readers feeling cheated and/or deliberately misled (see unreliable narrator)
• A male protagonist who beats up a bunch of people and ends up in bed with pretty much everyone else (not that I have anything against Jack Reacher)

I like visual statistics such as this ‘KU pages read graph’ below, because they suggest that someone read Cold Inside in two sittings. Tell me you enjoyed it. Better still, post a review on Amazon – please!