Synopses & Reviews
From the son of Anne Rice comes the electrifying New York Times bestseller of infidelity, murder, and betrayal on a college campus. At Atherton University, Kathryn, Randall, and Jesse come from different worlds but find themselves unexpectedly drawn together their freshman year. For each of them, college promises a bright future and a way to disconnect from a dark, haunted past. But as winter sets in, their secret histories threaten to disrupt the layers of deceit that protect their fragile new lives. One night a professor's wife is found drowned in an icy river, and rumors of murder threaten the safe haven of Atherton. Within days, Randall's illicit affair with the professor is about to be revealed in the local press. Then, an old mystery emerges from the shadows as people recall the discovery of a co-ed's corpse in a frozen creek twenty years earlier. Gradually, the three friends find themselves ensnared in a web of lies--a web spun long before their days at Atherton.
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Out magazine A dark, moody thriller...moves at full speed, and starts twisting from page one.
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Out magazine Praised as "an engaging, chilling tale", Christopher Rice's artful and erotic New York Times bestseller entices readers into the unspoken recesses of desire, corruption, and true horror.
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The Advocate Rice creates rich, enigmatic characters along with his plot reversals. Like a yarn by Stephen King crossed with a tale by Edmund White.
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The Advocate The Snow Garden offers finely nuanced character studies as its pages whiz by to its chilling conclusion.
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The London Times Rice's novels are becoming as addictive as those of his mother, Anne.
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Booklist An enthralling narrative....[Rice] expertly builds suspense.
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Library Journal Rife with murder, fear, madness, and homoeroticism.
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Darkness has fallen on Atherton University, as the body of a professor's wife is pulled from an icy river. Within days, an old mystery reemerges as people recall the discovery of a co-ed's corpse in a frozen creek twenty years before. Soon, three freshmen find themselves unexpectedly drawn together, snared in a web of secrets and lies that stretch deep into their haunted pasts. Snowbound, they are now unwitting captives of a malevolent force driving them inexorably toward a place of nightmares that is all too real, and all too near.
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In the darkening chill of winter, three Atherton University freshmen are being mysteriously drawn together by fate, and a compulsion they cannot comprehend. Though they come from vastly differing backgrounds, the college holds the promise of a better life for each of them -- and an opportunity to break away from the anguish and desolation of their former lives.
But the past does not die so easily, and the intricate webs of deceit that they have spun to protect themselves are slowly twisted into shackles that chain them to their doom. Snowbound and trapped on the campus, the friends find themselves unwilling pawns in the machinations of a malevolent force that has taken hold of Atherton -- and all their oldest fears, veiled passions, and secret nightmares are about to come to life in...The Snow Garden.
About the Author
Christopher Rice is the author of four New York Times bestsellers. The son of author Anne Rice and the late poet Stan Rice, he was raised in New Orleans. He now resides in Los Angeles, where he is a cohost of the Internet radio program The Dinner Party Show with Christopher Rice & Eric Shaw Quinn.