The Sanatorium: Reese's Book Club (A Novel) (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK | An instant New York Times bestseller!
A page-turning thriller from the author of The Retreat.
“An eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat.” —Reese Witherspoon
“This spine-tingling, atmospheric thriller has it all… and twists you’ll never see coming.” —Richard Osman, New York Times bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club
You won't want to leave. . . until you can't.
Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.
An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. 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.
Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge--there's something about the hotel that makes her nervous. And when they wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. With the storm closing off all access to the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic.
Elin is under pressure to find Laure, but no one has realized yet that another woman has gone missing. And she's the only one who could have warned them just how much danger they are all in. . .
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Sarah Pearse’s debut novel is a twisty, heart-thumping whodunit that’s been compared to the best of Agatha Christie. When British police detective Elin Warner takes a holiday to a remote Swiss luxury hotel—the site of a former sanatorium—she and her boyfriend are trapped by an avalanche, alongside other guests, staff, and a murderer. Within hours, everyone is a suspect in an escalating (and increasingly grisly) mystery, and Elin is forced to confront her own dark history. Claustrophobic and unerringly creepy, The Sanatorium is a captivating listen: British narrator Elizabeth Knowelden amplifies the way Pearse’s writing questions the trustworthiness of memory. This one gave us serious chills—and it wasn’t just Pearse’s evocative descriptions of the icy, unforgiving locale.
Customer Reviews
Meh - busy all over the place storyline
Complicated busy storyline. Very confusing. Mostly interested in shock value over a quality story telling. Wouldn’t recommend.