This collection of gripping crime storieshas become a classic.The idyllic village in the Swiss mountains with its iconic luxuryhotel is not what it seems: some of the guests do not haverelaxation and winter sport on their minds - but murder.Death comes in many guises and in the most unlikelylocations: in the cosy surroundings of hotel bars, on sunlit skislopes and on thin ice.At last, connoisseurs of crime fiction all over the world canenjoy an English translation of these evocative tales of darkforeboding. This book makes a wonderful travel companion, orone can stay at home by the fire and enter a fascinating worldof passion and revenge.Ulrich Knellwolf, a true master of irony and thetongue-in-cheek, has produced a captivating collection ofwicked page-turners.