One by One: The snowy new thriller from the queen of the modern-day murder mystery

In this novel, a group of shareholders and directors of a music app gather for a corporate retreat at an exclusive alpine ski resort. When an avalanche cuts the chalet off from help, tensions run high, and one board member goes missing. The group is forced to ask if someone would resort to murder to get what they want. The book has received praise for its clever plotting and suspenseful atmosphere, and is a perfect mash-up of Agatha Christie and the staff of a tech start-up.

Format: Hardback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 12 November 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Agatha Christie fans are in for a treat with this ingenious thriller! The pace is fast and furious, and the twists are satisfying.

Set in the exclusive alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine, the story revolves around the shareholders and directors of Snoop, the hottest new music app. They gather for a make-or-break corporate retreat to decide the future of the company. At stake is a billion-dollar dot com buyout that could make them all millionaires, or leave some of them out in the cold.

The clock is ticking on the offer, and tensions are running high. When an avalanche cuts the chalet off from help, and one board member goes missing in the snow, the group is forced to ask: would someone resort to murder to get what they want?

One by One is a perfect mash-up of Agatha Christie meets the staff of a tech start-up. It's set in a secluded luxury mountain resort, where greed, ambition, manipulation, secrets, nifty plotting, and a cracking denouement add up to a suspenseful and spine-tingling page-turner.

The book has received praise from various sources, including The Observer, which selected it as an Observer Book of 2020, and The Daily Express, which named it a Daily Express Book of the Year. Shari Lapena, author of The Couple Next Door, described it as a chilling, edge-of-your-seat thriller that Agatha Christie would have been up all night reading.

Gytha Lodge, author of She Lies in Wait, praised the book for its fast pace, action-packed plot, twisty-turny nature, modern sensibilities, cleverness, scariness, and ingénue. She said it was impossible to put down and perfectly claustrophobic and gorgeously atmospheric.

Overall, One by One is a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie and thrillers alike. It's a gripping story that will keep you guessing until the very end.

Weight: 664g
Dimension: 166 x 241 x 41 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781787300415