Dead of Winter

 "Dead of Winter" by Darcy Coates   384 pp.

Christa's boyfriend Kiernan invites her to go on a trip to an exclusive lodge high in the Rocky Mountains.  The tour company suggests that everyone leave their electronics at home so they can enjoy getting away from it all.  A downed tree on the road means it needs to be moved.  While the other men in the tour group work on getting rid of it, Kiernan takes Christa on a walk.  She loses him in the snow and stumbles upon an abandoned hunting cabin.  By the time she arrives, the other members of the tour group are there, as well.  Christa has some bad frostbite and she hears someone else in the group say they might have to cut off her arm.  Kiernan is not there.  Christa wants to go out looking for him (and does a few times), but does not find him at first.  Then during the night, the tour guide disappears and other tour members soon follow.

"The Dead of Winter" by Darcy Coates was described as similar to "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie.  This is true in that all the people on this trip to a remote lodge have secrets and the characters die one by one.  This story, however, is far more graphic in its violence.  The story was gripping and fast-paced.  I figured out who the bad guy was before the end, however.