A man the law set free. A train the snow shut in. And a verdict only you can write.
Gideon Frey walked out of a courtroom an acquitted man, and onto the night sleeper home, into a carriage full of the people his freedom had ruined. Before dawn the pass comes down, the line is buried at both ends, and Frey is found dead in the cold dead car at the rear.
No signal. No way out until the snow clears. And five passengers who each had a reason to see him judged again.
You are Iris Kerr, the court stenographer who took down every word of his trial, and the only soul aboard who can read the living against the record. The poisoned flask. The staged fall. The door shut from the wrong side. The swapped pills. The quiet hand at the heater. Every one of them is a thread, and the body reads five ways at once.
This is an interactive mystery, and it plays fair. Every choice is a tap. Follow a lead to its end and you'll convict the killer the clues actually point to, while another reader, pulling a different thread, convicts someone else, just as fairly. Five suspects. Five complete, deducible solutions. Read it once, then go back and accuse someone new.
Who killed Gideon Frey? That's not for the author to say, it's your job while you read.