by Shari Lapena
First published 2018
The guests at Mitchell's Inn arrive expecting a peaceful winter weekend in the Catskills. The remote lodge offers everything needed for relaxation: roaring fires in spacious rooms, fine wine, and snowy trails for skiing. When a fierce blizzard strikes, it knocks out the power and severs all communication with the outside world. The stranded visitors try to make the best of their situation. Then one guest dies in what appears to be an accident. When a second death occurs, fear spreads through the group. Someone among them is systematically killing the other guests. Trapped by the storm with nowhere to run and no way to call for help, the survivors must figure out who the murderer is. They face a terrifying reality: they must outlast both the blizzard and the killer hiding among them.
Genres: suspense, mystery, thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: killer-among-them, trapped, whodunit
Setting: Catskills, Mitchell's Inn
Period: winter
352 pages · Hardcover · Pamela Dorman Books
Content warnings: death, murder