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The Sanatorium
A Thriller & Suspense Novel by Sarah Pearse
Book 1 of the Detective Elin Warner Series
Subgenres:
- Locked-Room Mystery,
- Atmospheric
This book is for you if you're into...
- Modern locked-room mysteries in remote luxury hotels
- Icy Alpine settings with a sinister, claustrophobic vibe
- Detectives forced to investigate while trapped by a snowstorm
From Little Stack
Want a mystery that wraps you in atmosphere and refuses to let you escape, The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse is a brilliantly chilling pick. The novel centers on a sleek luxury hotel perched high in the Swiss Alps which was once a sanatorium with a dark and unsettling past. When guests arrive for a glamorous engagement celebration, a violent snowstorm rolls in, cutting the hotel off from the outside world and the police, creating the perfect modern locked-room setting.
Things quickly turn sinister when a guest vanishes and bodies begin to surface, leaving everyone trapped inside a building that feels more like a gilded prison than a getaway.
With its icy setting, creeping dread, and classic “nowhere to run” mystery vibes, this is a gripping, page-turning thriller that makes the locked-room trope feel fresh, unsettling, and utterly addictive.
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...
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