Freeze by Kate Simants

From Goodreads

ON THE TOUGHEST REALITY SHOW ON TELEVISION
A KILLER IS HIDING OUT OF SHOT

Frozen Out is set to be a TV sensation. On a small ship off the coast of Greenland, eight contestants will push themselves to breaking point for a £100,000 prize.

The show is Tori Matsuka's baby. After years working her way up the ladder, she's finally launching her own production company with Frozen Out, and the late nights, the debts, the strain on her relationship will all be worthwhile. Everything is riding on the next twelve days. For camerawoman Dee, it's a chance to start again after the tragedy that tanked her undercover journalism career. Not even Tori, her oldest friend, knows the full truth of why Dee left her previous job, and she plans to keep it that way.

But as errors and mishaps mount on set, tempers among the cast and crew start to fray. And when one of the contestants is found dead, only Dee realises the death wasn't natural - and from what she's seen from behind the camera, it won't be the last. As the Arctic ice closes in around them and all chance of escape is cut off, it becomes clear that although the world outside wants them dead, it's the secrets inside the ship that might cost them their lives.

Packed with suspense from the first page to the last, Freeze is a must-read for fans of Shiver, The Sanatorium and One By One. This thriller isn't just chilling: it's sub-zero.

My thoughts

My thanks to the Publishers via NetGalley for a copy of this in exchange for an honest review.

I was drawn to the book by the synopsis and the fact that being on a ship in the surroundings that these contestants have found themselves in is one of my worst nightmares.  On a small ship off the coast of Greenland being gradually frozen in as the weather takes a turn for the worse.  

As one of the eight contestants taking part in a contest in the Arctic, where the contestants are being pushed to the limit in order to try to be the winner of a potential £100,000 prize, is found dead!  Who will win and who can survive the challenges ahead of them?  More to the point though is who has killed the contestant, why has this person been killed and will they be the only person killed?

With so many questions unanswered, who can people trust and how can they survive when they are in the Arctic and frozen in the sea with nowhere to escape.

This was a great read that had me hooked, it was full of twists and turns to keep the reader engaged.  At times I felt like I was actually there with them all experiencing what they were all going through.  I will definitely look out for more books by this Author and I can thoroughly recommend her as one to keep your eye on.