The Chalet is this year's most talked about debut novel - a proper old-fashioned whodunnit set in the Alps. And look, here's Catherine proving that she knows a thing or two about snow. I caught up with her from her home in France (it's perfectly OK to be jealous, you'd be weird if you weren't) The Chalet is good old-fashioned murder mystery set on the ski slopes of France. I’m guessing you know how to ski and have been to France? Yep, I live in France and went on my first ski