The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse (Bantam, £12. It would look great in a limited TV series on a streaming platform. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium, a Reese’s Book Club Pick, detective Elin Warner’s second outing, as she uncovers the truth behind the suspicious deaths on a stunning island getaway.
The writer spent part of her twenties there and she evokes a breathtaking view of snow-covered mountain ranges seen through the sparkling windows of a high-end accommodation that most of us could never see the inside of. Le Sommet is a fictional luxury hotel converted from an abandoned sanatorium high in the real Alpine municipality of Crans-Montana. Sanatorium and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. What Pearse absolutely has going for her is an incredible setting. It’s like Christie got distracted by a Resident Evil video game while pottering with Poirot. But smashing that with ultra-violent torture scenes carried out by a gas mask-wearing villain can sometimes be jarring.
The enforced mixing of the super-rich with the middle and lower classes is straight out of any number of Christie books. Pearse lives in Devon, the writing home of Agatha Christie, so she can be forgiven for taking a little influence from her.
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