In the book Body in the Snowdrift by Katherine Hall Page, the main character, Faith, and her husband named Tom go to a ski resort in Vermont called Pine Slopes for his father’s 70th Birthday. Later on that day she finds 80 year old Boyd Harrison dead and stuck in a snowdrift. Later that week a series of pranks and catastrophes wreck the resorts reputation. These mishaps are a fake body in the pool, someone jamming the chairlift, and the head chef suddenly disappearing. Faith tries to find out who does this but ends up getting sidetracked by helping out in the kitchen. Even later in that week there are red speckles all across the snow, and they believe that it is the blood of the head chef who disappeared earlier in the week. They find out that the chef was pushed into the snow-maker supply, later to have his body spread all about the snow. She figures out who murdered Boyd and the chef and saves the resort. I think this book was very well written with excellent suspense.
This book is a mystery book because it follows the basic mystery book “format” with a death and someone to solve it. Boyd Harrison dies because the pills he was supposed to take were filled with mints. They eventually find out who killed him, making this book a mystery book.