‘Thrilling – I could feel the icy chill blowing through the pages’ Michelle Frances ‘I was gripped from start to finish’ Cass Green ‘A fast-paced and easy-to-read thriller, with a gorgeously escapist setting’ Best magazine ‘Atmospheric and suspenseful’ Woman’s Weekly ‘A great, pacy read fans of Lucy Foley will love’ Fabulous magaazine ‘A brilliant book with a twist you won’t see coming’ Bella magazine ‘An intense, claustrophobic thriller’ Heat magazine Someone knows what really happened that day.Īn exciting new debut for anyone who loves Ruth Ware, Lucy Foley, and C.L. Two young men ski into a blizzard… but only one returns.įour people connected to the missing man find themselves in that same resort. ‘Agatha Christie meets the glamour of après-ski’ SUNDAY TIMES The snowy setting makes The Chalet an ideal winter read and a perfect slice of escapism for right now.Four friends. That is the mark of a great murder mystery. There were a few times I thought I’d worked out where the story was going, only for it to cleverly swerve in a different direction. She was clever, scathing and – like a few of the others characters too – hiding secrets that you just couldn’t wait to get to the bottom of. There’ll be no spoilers from me, so I’ll just say that the plot developed at a speedy yet satisfying pace and Ria was the character that jumped out for me. As the plot unfolds, it becomes clear they have (or at least one of them has) a link with the events that happened 20 years previously… 20 years later, at the same resort, La Madière in France, two couples – Ria and Hugo and Simon and Cass (and their baby) – are on a glamorous holiday.

Told in two time frames, 20 years apart: In 1998, two brothers go missing while attempting a hazardous ski trail and one of them ends up dead.

I actually found I learnt things about the sport as I read, as it goes into quite good detail. If you’re thinking ‘I’ve never skied so not sure I’ll be into this.’ Well, I’m here to reassure you that I’m not a skier either and was completely drawn into the story. Opening sentence: BREAKING NEWS: A British national is reported to have died at the ski resort of La Madière, France. Author Catherine Cooper is a journalist who specialises in travel and ski writing, so it’s no surprise that it is central to her debut book’s plot. The Chalet is a murder mystery / psychological thriller mix with as many twist and turns as a red ski run.

Let’s take a virtual holiday to a glam and snowy ski resort.

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