I do like how the culprit was caught what feature lead Elin to them. The other characters are interesting enough that I could remember who they were when the mystery really starts. What I Liked: Elin was annoying at first but I grew to really like her character and her observations. A body then bodies start piling up with nowhere to go Elin has to find out the truth. Issac’s fiancé goes missing and an avalanche snows them in Elin is left to investigate, but can she do it. The meeting is awkward because of a past trauma that Elin believes that her older brother killed her younger brother when they were younger. Elin is a brilliant detective but suffers panic attacks thanks to her last case, since going on leave. Despite the murder the hotel is opened on time Elin Warner is a detective on leave that got invited to celebrate her estranged brother Issac who is engaged to her childhood best friend she stopped speaking to. Is this a former patient, an angry townsperson, or someone else with a grudge. The town people protest the remodel and want know one to take it over, one of the builders checks out the construction as he is stalked and stabbed by someone in a old gas mask and a rubber suit, like the doctors wore when treating the TB patients. The Plot: A former sanatorium that treated female tuberculosis patients in 1920’s is getting turned into a swanky new hotel in the Swiss Alps. I enjoyed it the ending could of been a little more satisfying, but all together a solid mystery from Sarah Pearse. The killer’s lament was too long and didn’t have the reason I felt were grounds to murder so many. I did guess the killer, but it wasn’t for the reasons that I thought, my guess was more a shot in the dark, so the narrative was still fun. The Sanatorium is a solid mystery, with easy to remember character’s. This book was on Reece Witherspoon’s book club which gave it some extra hype. The setting is unique a former Sanatorium that treated female tuberculosis patients that is turned into a swanky hotel in the Swiss Alps.

This is a novel of a lot of twist that will mess with your head as to is behind all this. we later learn the significance of it and when it happened. The thriller gets off to a fast start with a murder.

The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse is a tightly wound thriller at an isolated hotel with it’s own horrific past.

The sanatorium book cover