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With Christoffer Holst’s “Cold, White Winter Nights,” the reader gets a stenciled but still entertaining murder mystery around Christmas time, according to literary critic Jimmy Vulovic.
There are things that a detective story reader often has to ignore so as not to ruin the reading experience. Stencil images are such that one or at most a couple of character traits characterize the people portrayed. Also, the few traits often show up in their appearance. For example, a good male cop is usually tall and blond, or at least incredibly attractive. Christoffer Holst’s latest book on crime reporter Cilla Storm, “Cold White Winter Nights,” is no exception.
Another thing you should ignore is the way they speak. That is, people easily radiate powerful words. If you got yourself such a quick and timely single line in real life, even the next thought would immediately have been that it sounded like a movie. Because it is so, in crime novels written annually, people tend to speak more like in a movie than as people in real life.
But if you can ignore those things, the books are quite entertaining, like “Cold White Winter Nights,” where Cilla Storm’s quiet Christmas celebration planned in Idre turns into a murder mystery with a musical prodigy and an overprotective mother in the center. The later text promises that “the idyll of the mountain and the noise of Christmas meet a plot of suspense and tickling.” So is. So the book has what it takes to be a feel-good detective.
