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**The Sunday Times Top 5 bestseller**

Longlisted for the CWA New Blood Award

Four friends. One luxury getaway. The perfect murder.

'Pure adrenaline' ERIN KELLY

'An intense thriller' HEAT

'Agatha Christie meets the glamour of apres-ski' SUNDAY TIMES

French Alps, 1998

Two young men ski into a blizzard... but only…

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1 author picked The Chalet as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Set over two time zones, this is about two brothers who went skiing, except one didn't return.

Twenty years later, a group of friends return to the same mountain and a body is found. I loved the dark, deceitful characters and how you didn’t know who to trust. Also, the snowy setting was just perfect.

For me, there’s nothing better than a well-described story set in the Alps.

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