One by One

One by One begins with a corporate retreat in the French Alps for the employees and shareholders of Snoop, a trendy London tech start-up. What should be a week of strategy sessions and team bonding becomes far more volatile when a divisive buyout offer throws the group into conflict. Then an avalanche cuts the chalet off from the outside world, turning professional tension into a far more immediate kind of danger.

The premise lets Ruth Ware combine a classic closed-circle mystery with a sharply modern setting. The remote ski lodge, the strained workplace dynamics, and the sudden isolation all work together to create a thriller where ambition, resentment, and fear keep feeding one another. As people begin to disappear, the novel shifts from uncomfortable corporate drama into survival-driven suspense, with the snowy alpine setting making the story feel both elegant and increasingly hostile. It is the kind of thriller that thrives on mistrust, pressure, and the sense that no one in the chalet is being entirely honest.

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