![]() ![]() ![]() The invite surprises her since she hasn’t heard from Isaac for four years, and didn’t know he and Laure hooked up. The set-up: Elin has been invited by her brother Isaac to the “absolute remoteness” of a mountaintop high-up in the Swiss Alps to celebrate his engagement to Laure, someone she was friends with growing up. The Sanatorium is not for the faint of heart. ![]() You’ll viscerally squirm, feeling the way Elin does, feeling your adrenaline pumping. Why tell you this?īecause: if you’re expecting a mystery without the horror of a thriller, this is not that novel as the murders are gruesome. The rest is part thriller and part Gothic. British author Sarah Pearse’s gripping debut is a whodunit involving a detective: Elin Warner in her thirties on leave for the past year from her job in England due to traumatic professional and personal events. Both include subgenres, whodunit and hard-boiled detective in the mystery category. ![]() The publisher categorizes The Sanatorium as mystery fiction – a different literary genre for this blog, and different from a thriller. Actually, three murders and several failed or thwarted attempts. Psychologically suspenseful novels characterize books blogged about, but none single-mindedly focused on a crime, a murder. How a remote mountain setting and atmospheric prose intensify an already intense plot (Crans-Montana, Swiss Alps 2015 to present day): Warning: The Sanatorium is like nothing reviewed here. ![]()
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