3.5 stars.
I was in love with this until the last 10%. For almost the entire story it was atmospheric, slowly revealing little secrets about the Le Sommet Hotel in the Swiss Alps that was once a sanatorium for the mentally insane. There was mystery and suspense, with former detective Elin Warner helping to solve the disappearances and murders of some of the guests. With a massive snow storm hitting the location, the killer is confined with their prey and I had absolutely no idea who the perpetrator was. At one point I was wondering if there might be a supernatural element at play, a little 'Silent Hill' going on. Sadly, the ending was such a disappointment. The most bizarre justification for murder I've ever read. Completely irrelevant to the entire story, the big reveal was a huge let down for me.
The epilogue suggests a sequel but I'm not sure I'll read it. I found Elin to be quite bland and unrealistic as a detective.

Thanks to Random House UK and Netgalley for my review copy.

If you want a spine tingling, creepy read this is the one for you, I t is a very well described story, the author Sarah has clearly done a lot of research into the Sanatorium. I felt as though I learnt quite a bit as I had never heard of one before let alone what they did there. I found this story had me on edge, I couldn't work out where the story was being lead, the descriptions of the different things in the hotel gave me chills and so did what happened back in the day before it turned into a hotel. A tense and chilling read, the ending left me with goosebumps.

#TheSanatoriam #NetGalley
A good read.
An imposing, isolated hotel, high up in the Swiss Alps, is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But she's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when she receives an invitation out of the blue to celebrate her estranged brother’s recent engagement, she has no choice but to accept.
Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge. Though it’s beautiful, something about the hotel, recently converted from an abandoned sanatorium, makes her nervous – as does her brother, Isaac.
If you loved One by One by Ruth Ware, The Guest House by Abbie Frost then you would love this.
It's main character was so intriguing.
Thanks to NetGalley and Random House UK Transworld Publishers for giving me an arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.