![]() ![]() Agent: Charlotte Seymour, Andrew Nurnberg Assoc. ![]() This dark tale of family dynamics is sure to please suspense fans. Readers will applaud as Elin, for all her anxieties, emerges as a competent sleuth. ![]() Might Isaac, whom she blames for the decades-old death of their brother, somehow be involved? The discovery of a body raises the stakes. When Laure goes missing the day after Elin and Willy’s arrival, Elin learns that others have disappeared from Le Sommet, long shrouded in sinister rumors about its patients’ brutal treatment. The emotionally fragile Elin is on break from her job, following an intense case and the death of her mother, whose funeral Isaac was too busy to attend. They crack the code a few hours before the royal wedding between Philip and Elizabeth. British police detective Elin Warner and her boyfriend, Willy Riley, come to Le Sommet at the invitation of her selfish brother, Isaac, a university lecturer in Lausanne, and his fiancée, Laure Strehl, to celebrate the couple’s engagement. Mab is surprised when her second husband shows up to help neither realized the other did similar work during the war, and their realization opens the way to newfound intimacy. Le Sommet, originally a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients in the Swiss Alps, was abandoned for decades, until it was renovated as a luxury hotel. The characters feel so real and when people start to go missing the suspicion is so menacing. Pearse’s engrossing debut boasts a highly atmospheric setting. The Sanatorium is a creepy and twisty psychological thriller about an ex-police detective who is traumatised by a childhood family tragedy and is now on a mission to lay her ghosts to rest. ![]()
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