Description

Inspector Henry Tibbett is taking a much-needed holiday from his job at Scotland Yard with his wife Emmy. Headed for a spot of skiing in the Italian Dolomites and some first-class people-watching, Tibbett’s worries blissfully melt away.

That is, until a fellow guest who boards the ski lift alive at the top of the mountain is found dead when the lift touches bottom. Another dead body turns up, and then another, and it becomes clear that murder has come to the mountain.

Publisher Review

‘One of the deftest practitioners of the British procedural detective novel’ New York Times ‘A queen of crime … her name can be mentioned in the same breath as Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh’ Daily Herald ‘Gripping … very neatly worked out’ The Evening Standard ‘Intricate plots, ingenious murders, and skillfully drawn, often hilarious, characters’ Mystery Scene ‘Really good detection’ The Spectator ‘Ingenious and elegant, with nary a trace of formula’ Kirkus ‘Patricia Moyes tells great tales in fascinating settings, and her Scotland Yard detective, Henry Tibbett, is perhaps the most believable of anyone detecting in this decade’ Los Angeles Times ‘For classic detection, [Moyes] is far and away best’ Times Literary Supplement