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

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The American’s overbearing influence across the modern thriller genre emerges again in Pearse’s novel. The enforced mixing of the super-rich with the middle and lower classes is straight out of any number of Christie books. 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.

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. In the prologue, Daniel Lemaitre, the hotel architect, is accosted by a masked assailant while leaving the unfinished hotel site. Vividly set against the backdrop of the Swiss Alps, it had me on the edge of my seat from the first page. It is a locked-room thriller in which the protagonist is tasked with solving a string of murders taking place in the hotel while on a trip to celebrate her brother’s engagement.She realizes that she has to find Margot to avenge Laure and Will and to prevent her from hurting anyone else. After the whole ordeal, the Carons are both arrested, and Elin’s relationships with Isaac and Will are strengthened. Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge–there’s something about the hotel that makes her nervous. She planned the murders in a plot to seek revenge against Daniel Lemaitre for sexually assaulting her as a teenager and against all the people who she felt failed her in some way. With the storm closing off all access to the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic.

A superb debut offering an astonishingly creepy and isolated backdrop, great characters, tension, and twists.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. One of the hotel employees, Adele, turns up dead in one of the pools, and Elin must investigate on behalf of the local police. The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse is an eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat. 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.