Joining a friend for a skiing vacation in the Italian Alps, Rick Montoya reluctantly investigates the murder of an American banker and uncovers a wide range of suspects, in a case that is challenged by the victim's heiress sister.

While skiing in the Alps, Tessa discovers and befriends Gawion, a mythical gnome-like creature called a barbegazi, whose sister is missing and may have been captured by humans.

Barry der Menschenretter, a Saint Bernard dog, reflects back on his life in the early 1800s at the Hospice of the Great Saint Bernard in the Swiss Alps, where he rescued some forty people from avalanches. Includes facts about the breed and the hospice.

"In this propulsive locked-room thriller debut, a reunion weekend in the French Alps turns deadly when five friends discover that someone has deliberately stranded them at their remote mountaintop resort during a snowstorm. When Milla accepts an off-season invitation to Le Rocher, a cozy ski resort in the French Alps, she's expecting an intimate weekend of catching up with four old friends. Yet no sooner do Milla and the others arrive for the reunion...

Snowy escapades in stunning Switzerland! Alice-Miranda and her friends are off to Switzerland to ski, sightsee and experience the unique White Turf racing event. St Moritz is as glamourous as they expected and their hotel is beyond belief - as are its owners, the overly friendly Otto Fanger and his frosty wife, Delphine Doerflinger.

When seventeen-year-old Cammie wakes up in a convent high in the Alps, she slowly comes to realize that she's been tortured, the last four months have been erased from her mind, and an ancient terrorist organization is hunting for her.

In a tiny village in the Swiss Alps, an angel meets an American girl named Zola who has come with her father to open a school, and together Zola and the angel rescue a group of homeless orphans, who gradually change everything.

Buried under a flash avalanche while skiing, young married couple Jake and Zoe miraculously dig their way out only to discover themselves alone in an eerily silent, evacuated region and unable to contact the outside world.

A young African mother embarks on a journey to reclaim the infant son stolen from her arms. Beginning in Tunisia, she makes an illegal and harrowing crossing of the Mediterranean, then treks up through Italy, over the Alps, and on to Berlin, where her son has been placed in another woman's care.

The memoirs of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general. He reflects on war, gives the inside story on his winter crossing of the Alps with the elephants, explains how he defeated his Roman counterpart, Scipio Africanus, and describes his romance with Similce, his Spanish wife. A first novel by a British writer.