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An Unwanted Guest

  • 350 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2017
  • 20 editions

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1 About this book

A weekend retreat at a cozy mountain lodge is supposed to be the perfect getaway. But when the storm hits, no one is getting away. It's winter in the Catskills and Mitchell's Inn, nestled deep in the woods, is the perfect setting for a relaxing maybe even romantic weekend away.

It boasts spacious old rooms with huge woodburning fireplaces, a well-stocked wine cellar, and opportunities for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, or just curling up with a good murder mystery. So when the weather takes a turn for the worse, and a blizzard cuts off the electricity and all contact with the outside world the guests settle in for the long haul.

Soon, though, one of the guests turns up dead it looks like an accident. But when a second guest dies, they start to panic. Within the snowed-in paradise, something or someone is picking off the guests one by one. And there's nothing they can do but hunker down and hope they can survive the storm.

  • Thrillers
  • Relationships
  • Murder
  • Investigation

2 About Shari Lapeña

Born 1960

Shari Lapena (born 1960) is a Canadian novelist. Lapena, a lawyer and English teacher before beginning her writing career, published her debut novel Things Go Flying in 2008. That novel was shortlisted for the Sunburst Award in 2009. Her second novel, Happiness Economics, was a Stephen Leacock Award finalist in 2012. Her books have been sold in forty territories around the world. She lives in Toronto.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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