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...
"CHILLING! The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse is an eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat. Let's set the mood... You're in a remote location--at a hotel--and there's a snowstorm. The winds are howling, the snow is pelting in every direction, there's a missing person, and a dead body shows up...!" - Reese Witherspoon
"When guests at a five-star resort in the Alps disappear mid-blizzard, vacation's over for detective Elin Warner. It's The Shining but with a full house." - People
"Pearse's engrossing debut boasts a highly atmospheric setting... Readers will applaud as Elin, for all her anxieties, emerges as a competent sleuth. This dark tale of family dynamics is sure to please suspense fans." - Publishers Weekly
"Pearse not only creates believably fallible characters, she also vividly portrays the frigid landscape of Le Sommet buffeted by blizzards, and a chilling epilogue cries out for a sequel. Crime-fiction readers will want to keep an eye on Pearse." - Booklist
"The Sanatorium is an absolutely splendid Gothic thriller -- gracious in its nods to the classic locked-room mystery, yet bold enough to burst out of that room through the window. Pearse writes prose fresh and crisp as Swiss Alp powder, and her characters fascinate even as their numbers dwindle." - A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
"Pearse's The Sanatorium will keep you checking over your shoulder. This spine-tingling, atmospheric thriller has it all: an eerie Alpine setting, sharp prose, and twists you'll never see coming. A must-read." - Richard Osman, international bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club
"Sarah Pearse's The Sanatorium is a knockout. Mesmerizing, lyrical prose contrasts starkly with the dark story events in this debut thriller set at a remote luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps. Tense, claustrophobic, with a horrific connection between past and present that is utterly unpredictable--I loved this book!" - Karen Dionne, #1 international bestselling author of The Wicked Sister
"It's hard to believe this is a debut novel, given how masterfully Sarah Pearse writes. The setting is starkly chilling, the characters are smart and vulnerable, and as you turn the pages, the slow creep of claustrophobia sets in... Highly recommended." - Sarah Pekkanen, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of The Wife Between Us
"A mix of whodunnit and psychological thriller with hints of horror, this fine debut... is smartly structured and often powerful." - The Sunday Times (UK)
"A colorful and tense murder mystery with a chilling (in more ways than one) atmosphere. . . There is a pleasing pressure-cooker feel to proceedings, reminiscent of Agatha Christie's classic And Then There Were None. Pearse uses clever red herrings - secrets, pills, affairs, mental illness - and the stand-off scenes between Elin and the murderer are genuinely scary." - The Irish Times
"Slowly the dark secrets hidden in the sinister building emerge from the shadows. There are echoes of Hitchcock and du Maurier, but Pearse has her own distinctive, emotional voice--one to be admired." - The Daily Mail (UK)
