Shiver by Allie Reynolds
Milla anticipates an intimate weekend of meeting up with four old friends when she accepts an invitation to Le Rocher, a charming ski town in the French Alps, during the off-season. Despite the fact that it has been ten years since she last saw them, she will never forget the relationship they developed while preparing arduously for an elite snowboarding championship on this exact mountain.
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However, as soon as Milla and the others go to the reunion, they know there is a terrible problem. The hotel is empty. The cable cars that took them to the mountaintop are no longer in operation. Their mobile devices are missing. A game with specific instructions that are meant to bring out their secrets is waiting for them inside the hotel.
A game created to serve as a constant reminder of Saskia, the mysterious sixth member of their team who went missing the morning of the competition years earlier and was long thought to have passed away.
Milla, who is trapped inside the resort, is unsure as to which is worse: the ominous things happening to her around her or the approaching winter that would make leaving even harder. She only knows that she cannot trust anyone on the mountain. Because someone has brought them there in an effort to learn the truth about Saskia—someone who will do whatever it takes to find out the truth. And if Milla isn’t watchful, she might be the next to vanish.
A gang of snowboard competitors are the subject of this story, which alternates between flashbacks to when they were all competing 10 years ago and the present when they attend a reunion and become stranded on a mountain. The novel accurately captures the atmosphere of a ski resort in the French Alps, including the drinking, the snow, the lifts, and the friendship. After finishing the book, I was not shocked to learn that Allie Reynolds, the author, had previously competed as a top UK freestyle snowboarder, spending five winters in the mountains of France, Switzerland, Austria, and Canada. Overall, it’s a typical locked-room mystery in the tradition of Agatha Christie with extremely realistic stories of being in the mountains and endangering life and limb walking down the steep slope.
