THE HIDING PLACE

When Lou, her sister, and some close friends go on holiday with their families to an abandoned mining town, things go horribly wrong.

- BY KATE MILDENHALL

By the end of the first night, someone ends up dead...

It is fitting, Lou supposes, that the weekend begins with a problem. She is, after all, a professional problem-solver. It says as much in the 'skills' section of her LinkedIn profile. It's just that in her professional capacity she is always solving other people's problems – a touch of misconduct, a little carbuncle of corruption, a series of avalanching misjudgements – and she can square them off in the compartment of her brain that first identifies and then solves the issue.