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The Sanatorium: The spine-tingling #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick (Elin Warner, 1)

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She studied English and Creative Writing at the University of Warwick and worked in Brand PR for a variety of households brands before following her passion for writing. Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place.

She realizes that she has to find Margot to avenge Laure and Will and to prevent her from hurting anyone else. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. His love of tragic accidents, false memories, lies, affairs, convoluted twists, unresolved histories, and more lies are all there. Isaac’s fiancée, Laure Strehl, works at Le Sommet, a hotel in the Swiss Alps that was built on the site of an old sanatorium where tuberculosis patients were once treated. She confronts them about it, and Cecile reveals that the police found Daniel Lemaitre’s remains, and that Lucas didn’t want her to know.But smashing that with ultra-violent torture scenes carried out by a gas mask-wearing villain can sometimes be jarring. This spine-tingling, atmospheric thriller has it all: an eerie Alpine setting, sharp prose, and twists you'll never see coming.

One of the hotel employees, Adele, turns up dead in one of the pools, and Elin must investigate on behalf of the local police. Suddenly, Elin’s got the deductive powers of Sherlock Holmes, and enough super-hero energy to fight through a snow-storm after an avalanche. The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse is an eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat. Elin’s suspicions land on Laure when CCTV proves that she is still alive and hiding somewhere in the hotel.But her estranged brother has invited her there for his engagement party, and she feels she has no choice but to accept. She receives a mysterious message from Laure asking to meet at the penthouse, but when Elin goes to meet her, Laure is already dead in the lift. This is a surefire hit guaranteed to keep you seeing shadows in the snow on those freezing winter nights. But Elin’s taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept.

Tense, claustrophobic, with a horrific connection between past and present that is utterly unpredictable—I loved this book! She’s traumatised by not just the death of her little brother when they were kids but also a recent attempt on her own life.A beautiful, eerie hotel in the Swiss Alps, recently converted from an abandoned sanatorium, is the last place Detective Elin Warner wants to be. That’s the real challenge for a new entrant to the genre: you can beg, borrow and downright steal from your predecessors when it comes to plot, but that main character has to stand out in a line-up that ranges from the homely Miss Marple to the fast-talkin’ Rizzoli and Isles.

The Sanatorium is an absolutely splendid Gothic thriller—gracious in its nods to the classic locked-room mystery, yet bold enough to burst out of that room through the window. Will and Elin overhear the hotel owner, Lucas Caron, and his sister Cecile having a suspicious conversation in the stairs leading from the penthouse. Don't miss The Retreat, the addictive new thriller from the global bestselling author of The Sanatorium. Two years later, Isaac’s fiancée Laure is working at the hotel as an assistant manager, and the pair decide to invite family and friends to Le Sommet to celebrate their engagement. Creepy, deeply claustrophobic, mind-numbing, teasing, twists and turns galore, this book is a towering example of a masterful hand at work.Elin and Will find Margot in the maintenance room, but she attacks them, revealing that she took part in the murders because her relative was tortured at the old sanatorium, where the hotel now stands. After the whole ordeal, the Carons are both arrested, and Elin’s relationships with Isaac and Will are strengthened. Pearse hasn’t quite got it right here, but like a grizzled detective might say: maybe she’s onto something. Sinister scene well and truly set, unexplained disappearances commence, and dark family dynamics emerge, with quick chapters that keep pages turning. If you were one of the millions who made the streaming adaptation of his “ The Stranger” such a lockdown hit last year there’s plenty for you to enjoy here, even if an awful lot of it seems familiar.

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