Mountain of the Dead by Jeremy Bates is $0.99 at Amazon US.
This is the fifth in his World's Scariest Places series. It's a 'series' in that all the books follow a similar theme (horror stories set in real world locations). But each book is standalone.
I read and enjoyed the first book, Suicide Forest, about the Aokigahara forest in Japan, where many people go to commit suicide.
While these spring from factual places, they should not be misinterpreted as factual books. They are horror stories, first and foremost.
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The greatest unsolved mystery of the 20th century—until now.
Fact: During the night of February 1, 1959, in the remote reaches of Siberia, nine Russian hikers slash open their tent from the inside and flee into a blizzard in subpolar temperatures.
Fact: By morning all are dead, several having suffered gruesome, violent deaths. What happened to them has baffled investigators and researchers to this day.
It has become known as the Dyatlov Pass Incident.
Now, an American true-crime writer seeking answers to the enduring mystery sets out to retrace the hikers' steps on their fateful expedition—though nothing can prepare him for what he is about to discover...
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