Shiver

The off-season and empty ski lodge nestled in the French Alps provides the perfectly creepy setting for this locked chalet mystery. 5 friends, mostly competitive snowboarders, reconvene after 10 years apart, drawn together with a mysterious invite. It quickly becomes clear that there is a more sinister motive for bringing the band back together.

The chapters flip back and forth across the decade leading us to the mysterious disappearance of one of their own. Everyone seems to have a motive for wishing Saskia Sparks gone, and in flashbacks it's pretty clear that she is Just. The. WORST.

Author Allie Reynolds is a former pro-snowboarder and the details of the setting brought me back to my many hours on the hills. But with thrillers as in snowboarding it's all about how well you stick the landing and this thing was a bit of a yard sale (apologies for the ancient skiing slang creeping into a book about snowboarding) From the (hopefully this is vague enough) weakly established motive to the confluence of culpability that veered into hilarity, Reynolds gets points for technical difficulty but is ultimately docked on execution.