Well written excellently crafted, two separate ski parties 20 years apart but the second would never have happened without the first. Both at the same area of France but the first is comfortable the second is very luxurious. On the first Adam his elder brother Will and there girlfriends are enjoying or is that more are having a skiing holiday, Will is doing his best to wind up his younger sibling and doing a great job of it, things go frowned to worse and in the end 3 make.It home and one doesn't. The second is meant as a business trip for all involved Hugo the owner Simon the possible investor their partners Ria married to Hugo Cass the young bride and new mother with a nanny whose kept very busy. And Millie the chalet maid at everyone's beck and call.
There is a mixture of great and the vile characters that make this a mixture of love and hate the best recipe for a great thriller and that's what I believe this is it's not the longest but it all works and some great twists and a who is it as opposed to a whodunit read it.and see. It's a read you feel part of i felt i was there and wanting to shout (I didn't there were others about), but the emotions build and twirl you through an adventure. You'll feel the twists in your stomach the knots linger as each page and chapter takes you from one direction to another.. Trust me it's good and well worthy of its five stars.

I couldn’t put this down. The story goes between present day and 20 years ago. You just need to work out whose who. Definitely gets your mind going. Throughly enjoyed

I wasn't sure what to expect. Book started of slow and at times I found the time hopping confusing, then something just clicked and I was very much into the story line characters and found I could not put the book down. I feel the story or Cassie and the Nanny was left untold, but as the book went in did help with a is it this person which was a good twist.
Overall very easy read interesting and a great twist at the end. Would recommend to people for a holiday read.

For me this is a holiday read, I found that there was a lot of focus on the need for wealth and the ability to spend it! The rarified atmosphere of the ski chalet, the staff waiting on the guests and the expectation that everything will be perfect seems a thin subject for a story. The second half of the book got on with the investigation and the final twists added to the interest an although they were not surprising.
The two time zones didn't sync too well for me until the second half of the book.

This is the debut novel by Catherine Cooper and it is an entertaining twisty tale which had me reading well into the night.

The novel goes between two timelines; 1998 and present day, based in a ski resort in France. The beginning is with four people on a ski slope in difficult conditions. Two are instructors and the other two are brothers. Only one brother survives.

Present day sees Hugo and Ria, Simon and Cass who have brought their baby along with the nanny, Sarah, in an exclusive ski chalet at the same location. Hugo is trying to get Simon to invest in his company and Ria has arranged the holiday.

Bad weather comes down bringing an avalanche and along with it the body which disappeared all those years ago. This brings the surviving brother, Adam, to the ski resort after all of these years. The author cleverly allows assumptions to be made about the different characters and some are unpleasant. However, they all have secrets and these are gradually brought out.

Many thanks to NetGalley, and Catherine Cooper for my ARC of ‘The Chalet’ in return for my honest review.

Great read and recommended.

Many thanks to Harper Collins UK for an advanced copy of this book.
I absolutely loved this debut novel from Catherine Cooper and couldn’t put it down. The storyline had me gripped from beginning to end.
A group of skiers visit a ski resort with the chief aim of doing business with each other but to enjoy themselves at the same time. Their partners came with them and they are looked after by the very attentive chalet maid Millie.
However, some of the characters are leading secret lives and someone is out to seek revenge for events that took place 20 years ago. Back then two brothers went skiing but only one made it back.
Cannot wait to read more from this talented author.

This was such an easy read! Set in the perfect location it is told be several points of view and in past and present! The past leads up to the disappearance of 2 brothers during a heavy snow storm, with only one being found barely alive! The present follows a group of professionals on a business trip in the same resort. Back and forth the story goes leading up to the final twist which was enjoyable. A very short book, which is sometimes better than a long novel filled with fluff! Really well written and some horrid characters that I really struggled to like! Really good 😊

This is a better than your average chick lit novel. I loved the opulent setting and the wealthy characters. It is a great escapist, holiday read. I will definitely look out for the next book by Catherine Cooper. Highly recommended,

Enjoyed this book. It was a bit slow in parts. All the going back in time. I’m not to keen on that. But that aside I did enjoy it. Great plot. Never expected how it would play out. Good mix of characters. Set in an iiidillic location .

Thanks to Netgalley and Harper Collins for providing the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book switches between two time frames. Two brothers are out skiing with a guide during a snow storm in the French Alps in 1998. Both go missing and only one is found a few days later. Then in the current day, Ria and her husband Hugo are entertaining potential investors in their business at a Chalet at the same ski resort where the 2 men went missing. You seem to sense that the current group at the chalet have some connection to the occurrences in 1998, but no idea what it is.

3.5 stars

This was a quick read, and fairly entertaining. I really related to the flashback of Louisa learning to ski with her boyfriend. It really reminded me of my now husband, a very experienced skier, trying to teach me to ski when I was Louisa's age. That initially did NOT go well. Many of the characters were really unlikable. The mystery was okay. I wasn't wowed by it but I did appreciate the ski background and I would probably read more from this author.

I really enjoyed this book, however it was a bit far fetched the twist at the end was brilliant I never saw that coming. I liked the two stories one that was 20 years ago and present day I found that very intriguing and then they both merged into one I thought the book was really well written and want to thank the publisher and Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read it.

The Chalet is a brilliant read centred around a business trip to a Ski resort and a trip made 20 years earlier. It is a gripping read and made me want to pick up the story at any opportunity I got. The storyline is solid, the characters are well written and the twist in Part 3 is unexpected which makes the book all the better. It’s one I would definitely recommend and I will be keeping an eye out for more books by Catherine Cooper!

A gripping read from the start, this book keeps you turning the page until the very end. It blends past and present beautifully and the characters are well developed

I really enjoyed this book. This book is so well written and flows easily that I read it in 2 sittings. It is slightly shorter than some fiction books but it is a bonus as Cooper hasn't padded the story for the sake of length.

In 1998, Will and his brother, Adam go skiing with their girl friends. Twenty years later, Hugo and his wife Ria who run an exclusive travel company go to the same resort with a potential investor. Although the stories are told along side each other, Cooper makes it very clear so their is no confusion. To add to the mystery, half way through the book, a child starts telling about her life of neglect and multiple foster homes. Cooper cleverly brings the stories together with several twists along the way.

If this is a debut novel I hope that there will be many more of this standard.

The Chalet follows a dual timeline, 1998 when two young men go missing whilst skiing and 2020 when a group of people go to the same skiing destination.

I caught on to the twist very early on and this somewhat ruined the story. That being said, the writing was quite compelling and made this a very easy read. If you didn't catch the twist then I can see how this could be a gripping story.

The blatant classicism and stereotypes in The Chalet were completely unnecessary and felt quite jarring whilst reading. If this is something you recognise and do not enjoy in a book then I would perhaps give The Chalet a miss (it is rife throughout the book).

Whilst this is clearly a debut it does highlight some promise and I would be interested to see what Cooper writes next.

Thanks to HarperCollins and NetGalley for an early copy of The Chalet in exchange for an honest review.

This book kept reading, couldn’t put down! I loved how all the characters interlinked with each other and how your see the sides to their stories throughout the novel. I wouldn’t have guessed the twist @ the end was surprised as I was thinking it was someone else . Looking forward to the sequel if their is one.

The novel effectively opens in a ski resort in France in 1998, where four people, two men and two women, Adam and Will, and Nell and Louisa, are staying in an ordinary chalet. While they’re there, a skiing accident takes place. One of the men dies after the two of them become separated from their guide during an ill-advised attempt to ski off piste in bad weather, but the reader doesn’t immediately know which man it is.

The novel soon after moves forward twenty years, where a different group of four people are staying in a luxurious chalet in the same resort, the underlying reason they’re there being the desire on the part of one of the men to persuade the other to invest in his company. Again we get to know the two men, Hugo and Simon, and the women with them, Ria and Cass.

There’s also a nanny in 2020, called Sarah, and a chalet girl, Millie. Cameron, the owner of the chalets, who wants his chalets to be listed in Hugo’s brochure, appears later in the novel. The reader also hears the voice of a bitter child, who’d been neglected throughout her childhood by her mother.

An avalanche in 2020 results in the appearance of the body of the skier, who’d vanished twenty years earlier, which links the two time periods.

Having two groups of four people staying in the same resort, with underlying tensions rife in each group, made for a degree of confusion. And with the story moving backwards and forwards in time, and being conveyed through different characters’ voices, some identified and some not, I found myself struggling to remember who was whom and where we were in time. Apart from the difference in grades of chalet, and the different names, there was little to distinguish the two time periods.

That the author deliberately kept things back from the reader as part of a plot device added to the confusion.

I found it difficult to believe in any of the characters. The women’s motivations and negative attitudes were never satisfactorily, and credibly, explained. There was a hasty attempt at the end of the book to explain the attitudes and actions of some of the characters, but the explanation wasn’t realistic, and with all of the characters, clichés abounded.

I felt that the ending was rushed and unsatisfactory, and full of unlikely coincidences. It felt as though the book was being set up for a sequel, and in order for that to happen, ends had to be left open, with the result that the way in which characters acted was at times unbelievable.

I’m grateful to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of the novel.

A good who dunnit with great characters, suspense and intriguing end to the drama. Enjoyed this book a lot. Would recommend.

An engaging thriller set in a French ski resort with flashbacks to a death on the slopes twenty years before. I loved how the plot slowly showed you how some of the characters from the present were connected to the past events. The ski resort and the chalet were beautifully described and the ending was dramatic and unanticipated. I look forward to reading the next novel!

A thriller that proves the adage of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer.
The Chalet has a beautiful setting - a bustling Alpine ski resort and luxury chalets - but its pages hide a dark secret.
Our story focuses on a number of time frames and stories, which are inextricably linked though we don’t get all the details to start with. It involves a family holiday that goes horribly wrong, a skiing accident, the discovery of a body, revenge and the usual focus on relationships.
Initially I have to say I was a bit confused as to what’s exactly was happening at which time, but as we unearthed further details it became clearer.
As the story draws to a close it was clear that this was a revenge story that had been carefully plotted...and is far from over!
Thanks to the publishers for sending me an advance copy, as I’d read great reviews of this and was gutted when I was initially turned down for it on NetGalley.