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

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In the prologue, Daniel Lemaitre, the hotel architect, is accosted by a masked assailant while leaving the unfinished hotel site. But smashing that with ultra-violent torture scenes carried out by a gas mask-wearing villain can sometimes be jarring. Tense, claustrophobic, with a horrific connection between past and present that is utterly unpredictable—I loved this book!

Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge–there’s something about the hotel that makes her nervous. Vividly set against the backdrop of the Swiss Alps, it had me on the edge of my seat from the first page. And when they wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her.As Will recovers, Elin confronts Isaac because she believes that he killed their brother Sam, but he reveals to her that she had watched Sam fall and simply blocked it out. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel. Elin is under pressure to find Laure, but no one has realized yet that another woman has gone missing. Sarah Pearse grew up in Devon, England, and studied English literature and creative writing at the University of Warwick before completing a postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism.

A beautiful, eerie hotel in the Swiss Alps, recently converted from an abandoned sanatorium, is the last place Detective Elin Warner wants to be. Elin and Will arrive a few days before everyone else, but a snowstorm looms, pummeling the mountain resort. She texts Isaac, asking him to come rescue her from the archive room, and when he does, she tells him that Lucas is the killer.Shocked by Laure’s murder, Elin begins to examine the body for clues, but she is also attacked by a masked assailant, just like the one who killed Daniel Lemaitre and Adele. Her experiences living in the Swiss Alps in her early twenties inspired her acclaimed debut novel, The Sanatorium, which was an instant No. Pearse hasn’t quite got it right here, but like a grizzled detective might say: maybe she’s onto something.