A Trail of Blood on the Snow

Sam Lee

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Barbican Press
23 July 2025

Crime & Mystery

A startling debut noir. A Trail of Blood on the Snow is a chilling exploration of masculinity, madness, and the harrowing legacy of abuse.

""He remembers me. He remembers the screaming and the blood on the snow. He remembers everything, I can tell.""

Rex is 41. Halfway to death and no happier for it. Any promise of a better life got stifled decades ago, when Rex was a limping school kid and Max was the school bully.

Then, a chance encounter. Max standing smug and handsome at a gas station with his oh-so-perfect family.

Rex secretly follows them home. Watches them. Thinks about his own miserable life. What Max did to him, and how a real man would claim revenge.

Rex acts.

Is this the making of a monster, or the breaking of a man?

By: Sam Lee
Imprint: Barbican Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781909954281
ISBN 10: 1909954284
Pages: 156
Publication Date: 23 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Sam Lee is a 28-year-old writer from Canada, but she has called the Dominican Republic home since she was six. At age eight she started an all-girl rock band, Crush, opening for her father's band across island gigs. In her pre-teens she started playing bass and writing her own material, and now tours globally as a bass player/singer in the alt-rock band Still Eighteen. Other passions include snowboarding and making tiny cactuses out of clay for no apparent reason. A Trail of Blood on the Snow is her first published novel.

Reviews for A Trail of Blood on the Snow

""Wow! An extraordinary work of fiction from a writer who truly understands the darkness at the centre of the human condition. A true must-read."" – David Mark, best-selling author of the Aector McAvoy series