One By One

 One By One by Ruth Ware (2020) 372 pages

The top personnel of a British tech start-up company called Snoop rent a chalet in the French Alps. Instead of a week of camaraderie, it becomes apparent that the co-founders, Topher and Eva, want to go opposite directions. Topher wants to stay an independent company while Eva wants to accept a handsome buy-out offer. A former employee named Liz feels tugged from both sides because her 2% share in the company can be the deciding vote.

What starts as a difference of opinion between Topher and Eva turns into a series of deaths as the group is beset by a missing skier, a devastating avalanche, and power failure. When it looks possible that maybe both of the first two deaths are murder, the remaining employees realize that the stakes couldn't be higher. Riveting.