The Winter People

I almost didn't read this because I have tried McMahon before and not enjoyed the ones I read but this one can up on a list of truly spooky books to read in October from someone whose taste I totally trust. So I went for it. And I didn't dislike it!
The story was pretty spooky, I think the location (isolated small town, threatening natural formations, and fields that fail to produce crops) was a huge plus. I was okay with jumping timelines. A couple of times McMahon builds suspense and then has a character info-dump what happened instead of letting the reader find out for herself. Eh.
The characters were a little one dimensional...one, the wife of the dead photographer really didn't make sense. She is determined to be a hero, to save some other characters from a perilous situation and then she charges in and....doesn't. In fact, she makes it all about her. That kind of threw me.
I loved what she did for a living though!
I don't need to like or identify with characters in order to enjoy a story, and that wasn't an issue here.
Overall, the BIG BAD is pretty damned bad and the pages turned quickly. I might not recommend this one for Halloween, but save it for a snowstorm as the winter weather appears quite often.