"Seattle, 1933. Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, good night and reluctantly leaves for work. She hates the night shift, but it’s the only way she can earn enough to keep destitution at bay. In the morning — even though it’s the second of May — a heavy snow is falling. Vera rushes to wake Daniel, but his bed is empty. His teddy bear lies outside in the snow.

Seattle, present day. On the second of May, Seattle Herald reporter Claire Aldridge awakens to another late-season snowstorm. Assigned to cover this “blackberry winter” and its predecessor decades earlier, Claire learns of Daniel’s unsolved abduction and vows to unearth the truth — only to discover that she and Vera are linked in unexpected ways."

Acquired via PaperBackSwap. (Unabridged on 9 CDs; read by Tara Sands)

In present-day Seattle, an early May snowstorm, dubbed a "blackberry winter", surprises its residents. Claire, a reporter, is assigned to write a story about the weather anomaly, connecting it to a similar occurrence on the same date in 1933 Seattle. As she begins to research, she becomes intrigued by the disappearance of a young child on that day in 1933, and vows to solve the unsolved mystery.

I've read several of Sarah Jio's novels now, and some I've enjoyed and some I've thought were rather mediocre. I liked this one for the most part. It tied the past and present together well, and the characters were mostly likable. There were a few cliche's and/or predictable moments, but not overly so, and I wanted to keep reading to find out how everything would resolve itself.

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