Neyuki
根雪
COMING 9 JULY 2026!
Professor Will Grames’s colleague has gone missing. Only Will knows where, because he hid the body.
Will brought his young family along on a three-year adventure to the Japanese Alps, but now he’s panicked that he’ll be blamed for the man’s death—and spend the rest of his life in a Japanese prison. Will’s desperate plan: move the body into town the next night to obscure the evidence. In the meantime, he hides it in the field behind the little international university, a spot where the pampas grass is tall. But Will wakes the next morning to heavy snow. By the time he goes to retrieve the corpse, it’s over three feet deep.
Yet a much more chilling secret hides in this school tucked away in an idyllic mountain valley. Will’s actions soon trap him in a game of cat and mouse with someone who’ll do anything, including murder, to keep that secret concealed. The killer needs a scapegoat and is frantically cementing the last pieces of a plot to convict Will. Coming apart at the seams, Will must race to not only deflect the police investigation from himself, but find the real killer.