I’m at a loss as to which twist this is… Once the revelations as to who is who and why they want to do the things they do, I felt that the conclusion was a little drawn out as well. The blurb for the book refers to “a twist you won’t see coming”. I did think it fell away towards the end, with some of the twists being telegraphed too much. I’ll be honest, the book had me gripped, with its repeated changes of focus and developments. And re-reading the blurb, I’m not really sure what made me think it was.Īnyway, the book actually is very much in line with the current trend, the domestic thriller, with multiple narrators, two in the present, two in the past, as information is drip-fed to create the big picture.

Well, it doesn’t do that, but only because it isn’t that sort of book at all. There was a whiff of “ And Then There Were None” about the blurb, and given some other titles had tried and failed to do the isolated-group-being-picked-off tale recently, I thought I’d see if this one worked. Well, I was browsing on NetGalley and thought I’d give this a go. The incident from the past has not gone away, and at least one person at the chalet has a direct connection to the incident. Both marriages have tensions within them, but a far deeper problem lies beneath the surface. Twenty years later, two couples arrive at the same resort. Only one of them is discovered, barely alive… Two young men are separated from their guide during a blizzard. 1998, the French Alps, and a skiing holiday goes disastrously wrong.

The Chalet by Catherine Cooper