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Chill Factor

  • 2003 first published
  • 443 pages
  • ★ 5.0 (3 ratings)
  • 21 editions

Published in 2003, Chill Factor is a romantic suspense novel by Sandra Brown. The story is set in North Carolina) and North Carolina. Readers will find themes of serial murders, storms, vacation homes and mountain life.

Open Library readers give it an average of 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, and 46 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 21 editions across 4 languages.

It runs to roughly 443 pages — 8–9 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Chill Factor

Suspense abounds in this gripping new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown, in which a successful magazine editor is trapped in her remote cabin with a man believed to be a serial killer. Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town -- the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Not so, lately. Four women have disappeared from Cleary over the past two years. And there's always a blue ribbon left near the spot where each of the women was last seen. There are no bodies, no other clues, and no suspicion as to who their abductor might be. And now, another woman has disappeared without a trace. It is to this backdrop that Lilly Martin returns to close the sale of her mountain cabin, marking the end of her turbulent eight-year marriage to Dutch Burton, Cleary's chief of police. Dutch's reluctance to let her go isn't Lilly's only obstacle. As she's trying to outrun a snowstorm, her car skids on the icy road and strikes a man who emerges from the woods on foot. She recognizes the injured man as Ben Tierney, whom she'd met the previous summer. They're forced to wait out the storm in the cabin, but as the hours of their confinement mount, Lilly begins to wonder if the greatest danger to her safety isn't the blizzard outside, but the mysterious man right beside her.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Subjects

  • Vacation homes in fiction
  • Serial murders
  • Storms
  • North Carolina in fiction
  • Suspense fiction
  • Mountain life in fiction
  • Serial murders in fiction
  • Storms in fiction
  • Vacation homes
  • Mountain life
  • Romantic suspense novels
  • Blizzards
  • Serial murder investigation
  • Suspense romance
  • North carolina
  • Tempêtes

Quick answers

Who wrote Chill Factor?

Chill Factor was written by Sandra Brown and first published in 2003.

What genre is Chill Factor?

It is usually shelved as Romantic Suspense.

How long is Chill Factor?

The median edition has 443 pages, about 8–9 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Chill Factor?

Readers who like it often enjoy Nights in Rodanthe, The Lucky One and Angels Fall.

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