I purchased this book for my own personal collection.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Published: January 19, 2021
Summary:
In this propulsive locked-room thriller debut, a reunion weekend in the French Alps turns deadly when five friends discover that someone has deliberately stranded them at their remote mountaintop resort during a snowstorm.
When Milla accepts an off-season invitation to Le Rocher, a cozy ski resort in the French Alps, she’s expecting an intimate weekend of catching up with four old friends. It might have been a decade since she saw them last, but she’s never forgotten the bond they forged on this very mountain during a winter spent fiercely training for an elite snowboarding competition.
Yet no sooner do Milla and the others arrive for the reunion than they realize something is horribly wrong. The resort is deserted. The cable cars that delivered them to the mountaintop have stopped working. Their cell phones–missing. And inside the hotel, detailed instructions await them: an icebreaker game, designed to draw out their secrets. A game meant to remind them of Saskia, the enigmatic sixth member of their group, who vanished the morning of the competition years before and has long been presumed dead.
Stranded in the resort, Milla’s not sure what’s worse: the increasingly sinister things happening around her or the looming snowstorm that’s making escape even more impossible. All she knows is that there’s no one on the mountain she can trust. Because someone has gathered them there to find out the truth about Saskia…someone who will stop at nothing to get answers. And if Milla’s not careful, she could be the next to disappear…
My thoughts:
This book has been sitting on my shelf for quite some time and I’m so glad I finally made the time to read it! I love locked-room mysteries and for a debut, Allie Reynolds sure hit it out of the park with this one. I already have her second book on my shelf and cannot wait to pick that one up…hopefully soon!
While this atmospheric thriller does focus on snowboarding, rest assured you do not need to have any knowledge of the sport to enjoy this book. It is more about the snowboarders themselves, and what happened ten years ago when one of them went missing. Now a group of them have reunited but it is not for the reasons they think.
This book is full of suspense, tension and a whole lot of secrets. Told all the from Milla’s point of view, but alternating from the present and the past, I could not put this one down once I started it. It is such a gripping, twisted story that had me guessing all the way through. While none of the characters are particularly likeable, making them all quite suspect, I did love that we got quite the insider look into the competitive nature of athletes and just how much they push themselves both physically and mentally for this sport.
If you haven’t read this one yet, I highly recommend picking it up!
