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And when they wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge--there's something about the hotel that makes her nervous.
The American’s overbearing influence across the modern thriller genre emerges again in Pearse’s novel.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. 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.
His love of tragic accidents, false memories, lies, affairs, convoluted twists, unresolved histories, and more lies are all there. When guests at a five-star resort in the Alps disappear mid-blizzard, vacation’s over for detective Elin Warner. Where once authors, including King, may once have written with one eye on the silver screen, we are now in the Netflix age. Her eagerly anticipated second thriller, The Retreat, published in July 2022 and became an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge–there’s something about the hotel that makes her nervous.Suddenly, Elin’s got the deductive powers of Sherlock Holmes, and enough super-hero energy to fight through a snow-storm after an avalanche. She receives a mysterious message from Laure asking to meet at the penthouse, but when Elin goes to meet her, Laure is already dead in the lift. That’s the real challenge for a new entrant to the genre: you can beg, borrow and downright steal from your predecessors when it comes to plot, but that main character has to stand out in a line-up that ranges from the homely Miss Marple to the fast-talkin’ Rizzoli and Isles. This spine-tingling, atmospheric thriller has it all: an eerie Alpine setting, sharp prose, and twists you’ll never see coming. Strip away the many (and oh, there are many) plot lines and supporting characters, and this is the set-up for a new hero to step forward in the thriller world’s never-ending battle against puzzle-loving serial killers.
Sinister scene well and truly set, unexplained disappearances commence, and dark family dynamics emerge, with quick chapters that keep pages turning.Tense, claustrophobic, with a horrific connection between past and present that is utterly unpredictable—I loved this book! The enforced mixing of the super-rich with the middle and lower classes is straight out of any number of Christie books. But smashing that with ultra-violent torture scenes carried out by a gas mask-wearing villain can sometimes be jarring. Elin and Will arrive a few days before everyone else, but a snowstorm looms, pummeling the mountain resort.
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. She planned the murders in a plot to seek revenge against Daniel Lemaitre for sexually assaulting her as a teenager and against all the people who she felt failed her in some way. Don't miss The Retreat, the addictive new thriller from the global bestselling author of The Sanatorium.After the whole ordeal, the Carons are both arrested, and Elin’s relationships with Isaac and Will are strengthened. Mesmerizing, lyrical prose contrasts starkly with the dark story events in this debut thriller set at a remote luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps. This is equal parts creepy, suspenseful, and gruesome—everything you could want in a novel for this genre. 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. Elin is under pressure to find Laure, but no one has realized yet that another woman has gone missing.
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