Alexa Donne is the Edgar Award–nominated author of Pretty Dead Queens and The Ivies. By day she lives in Los Angeles and works in television marketing. The rest of the time she contemplates creative motives for murder and takes too many pictures of her cats.
Donne's latest young adult thriller, The Bitter End, is Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None with a Gossip Girl flair.
At CrimeReads Donne tagged six other novels inspired by Christie's classic. One title on the list:
One by One by Ruth WareRead about the other entries on the list.
This book is a chef’s kiss for the snowy isolation trope: a group of co-workers from a tech startup come for a retreat at a ski chalet inthe French Alps, and everyone it seems has a secret—or beef—with one another. They all love-to-hate the company’s enigmatic co-founder, who goes missing during a ski outing on the first day. Then a blizzard hits and one by one they start dying. The snowstorm in the lap of luxury vibes are immaculate in this one, with a heart-pounding ending you won’t forget. I’ve read this one not once, but twice, and there may be an homage or two to it in The Bitter End!
One by One is among Carolyne Topdjian's five top hotel thrillers and mysteries, Bonnie Kistler's six best office thrillers, Sandie Jones's six mysteries with large casts of characters, Allie Reynolds's seven chilling winter thrillers, and Louise Candlish's ten hardest characters in literature to love.
--Marshal Zeringue
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