Damnnnn was I excited to read this one, but it just didn’t live up to the high spooky gothic bar that was definitely set by… me, I guess? I mean seriously, that cover! Under: Officer Doofy, Reporting for Duty.Join 9,359 other subscribers Blogs I Follow ** Many thanks to the author and publisher for my review copy via NetGalley although I did end up reading a paperback copy which I won via a giveaway** Treat yourself I can’t wait to read book 2, The Retreat. And that ending! WOW! It gave me goosebumps. It’s atmospheric, chilling, and heart wrenching. It had me hooked from the very beginning and I could have quite happily ignored everything else and read it from cover to cover in one sitting. The story that follows is nothing short of terrifying.

Adding to that a snowstorm cuts off all access to the hotel. However, when her brother’s fiancée goes missing all hope of a relaxing break disappears. This break and celebration should be a perfect opportunity to relax and unwind, or so Will keeps telling her. Little does she know what she’s walking in to.Īlready on leave from work as a detective Elin has had a rough time, work wise and with the loss of her younger brother. I don’t think it’s somewhere she would choose to go either, but Will is fascinated by the architecture of the place. His fiancée is one of the managers of the resort. When we first meet Elin, she is travelling with her partner, Will, to this very hotel to celebrate the engagement of her brother. I’m not sure it would be somewhere I would want to stay but I can understand the curiosity it might arouse in others. The fact that an abandoned Sanatorium has been renovated into a luxury hotel is creepy enough. What an immensely creepy story The Sanatorium is! Everyone’s in danger – and anyone could be next. With access to the hotel cut off, the guests begin to panic.īut this is only the first disappearance. And things only get worse when they wake the next morning to find her brother’s fiancée is missing. But her estranged brother has invited her there for his engagement party, and she feels she has no choice but to accept.Īrriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge.

A beautiful, eerie hotel in the Swiss Alps, recently converted from an abandoned sanatorium, is the last place Detective Elin Warner wants to be.

The sanatorium book 2