The compelling new novel from the bestselling author of A DEATH IN SWEDEN, THOSE WHO DISAPPEARED and ICE IN THE BLOOD. A contemporary Christie-style whodunnit in which most of the suspects are high school students and the person trying to solve the crime has dark secrets of his own.
Matty Burkhalter works as a night supervisor on the Klimsen, a mountaintop visitor center and hotel in Switzerland. It's a job he likes - low profile, not public-facing, avoiding people who might ask questions about his past.
With the cable car suspended by an early winter storm, the mountain is evacuated, leaving Matty alone. But then a high school hiking party emerges from the storm and has to stay the night. When one of the students is stabbed to death, it soon becomes apparent that Matty isn't the only one with secrets.
As the authority figure, it falls to Matty to keep everything under control until the storm abates and the police can get there. His job isn't to investigate the murder, but with an unlikely sidekick in the guise of North Korean student, Kun-woo, that's exactly what he ends up doing. And he knows that if he's to avoid the police asking questions about his own history, he'll need to solve the crime before the storm passes...
Genre: Mystery
Matty Burkhalter works as a night supervisor on the Klimsen, a mountaintop visitor center and hotel in Switzerland. It's a job he likes - low profile, not public-facing, avoiding people who might ask questions about his past.
With the cable car suspended by an early winter storm, the mountain is evacuated, leaving Matty alone. But then a high school hiking party emerges from the storm and has to stay the night. When one of the students is stabbed to death, it soon becomes apparent that Matty isn't the only one with secrets.
As the authority figure, it falls to Matty to keep everything under control until the storm abates and the police can get there. His job isn't to investigate the murder, but with an unlikely sidekick in the guise of North Korean student, Kun-woo, that's exactly what he ends up doing. And he knows that if he's to avoid the police asking questions about his own history, he'll need to solve the crime before the storm passes...
Genre: Mystery
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