by Ruth Ware
First published 2020
The team building retreat in the Alps turns deadly when an avalanche buries the access roads and cuts all communication lines. The coworkers huddle in their isolated mountain lodge, waiting for rescue crews to dig them out after the blizzard passes. Deaths begin almost immediately. The first victim falls down the stairs. The second suffers a fatal accident in the kitchen. But the pattern becomes clear as bodies pile up. Someone is hunting the trapped employees one by one. Each murder fractures the group further as colleagues turn suspicious glances on each other. Nobody can be trusted. The killer walks among them, sharing meals and making small talk while planning the next death. The survivors must identify the murderer hiding in plain sight before the systematic elimination reaches its conclusion. Outside, the snow keeps falling.
Genres: suspense, mystery, thriller, 21st-century
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful
Tropes: systematic-elimination, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Ski Resort
Period: 21st-Century
416 pages · Paperback · Gallery/Scout Press
Content warnings: death, violence