And when they wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. 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.Īrriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge-there's something about the hotel that makes her nervous. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.Īn imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place.

Sarah Pearse's next book, The Retreat, is forthcoming. “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 “An eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat.” -Reese Witherspoon The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse (Bantam, £12.REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK | An instant New York Times bestseller! It would look great in a limited TV series on a streaming platform. The writer spent part of her twenties there and she evokes a breathtaking view of snow-covered mountain ranges seen through the sparkling windows of a high-end accommodation that most of us could never see the inside of.

Le Sommet is a fictional luxury hotel converted from an abandoned sanatorium high in the real Alpine municipality of Crans-Montana. What Pearse absolutely has going for her is an incredible setting.

It’s like Christie got distracted by a Resident Evil video game while pottering with Poirot. But smashing that with ultra-violent torture scenes carried out by a gas mask-wearing villain can sometimes be jarring. The enforced mixing of the super-rich with the middle and lower classes is straight out of any number of Christie books. Pearse lives in Devon, the writing home of Agatha Christie, so she can be forgiven for taking a little influence from her.

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