If you're the kind of person who's addicted to the rush of a good suspense novel, you know there's nothing like finding the perfect page turner to keep you staying up way past your bedtime...no matter how exhausted you are the next morning.
Luckily there are plenty of riveting titles out there to choose from — including one recommendation from Reese Witherspoon that was ranked a "must-read thriller with a shocking twist" by Penguin Random House editors: The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse.
Published in 2021, The Sanatorium tells the story of a "former abandoned sanatorium" in a remote Alpine town that's been renovated into a five-star hotel:
"An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. 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. When they wake one morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her."
View this post on InstagramWitherspoon made The Sanatorium her Book Club pick in February 2021, praising the "eerie, atmospheric novel" for keeping her on the "edge of [her] seat" in an Instagram post.
"Let’s set the mood...You’re in a remote location — at a hotel — and there’s a snowstorm," Witherspoon wrote. "The winds are howling, the snow is pelting in every direction, there’s a missing person, and a dead body shows up...!"
"The Sanatorium will keep you checking over your shoulder. This spine-tingling, atmospheric thriller has it all: an eerie Alpine setting, sharp prose, and twists you'll never see coming. A must-read," raved Richard Osman,New York Times bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club.
Sarah Pearse was inspired to write 'The Sanatorium' while living in Switzerland
In an interview with The Novelry, Pearse opened up about how living abroad as a young adult inspired her to write her debut novel, The Sanatorium.
View this post on Instagram"The idea for The Sanatorium came from both my experiences living in Switzerland in my early twenties and an article I read in a local Swiss magazine about the legacy of sanatoria in the region," she explained.
"When I lived in Switzerland, I spent a lot of time in the mountains, and after experiencing its extremes in both landscape and weather, I knew I wanted to set a story in the Alps at some point in the future," Pearse continued. "When a storm rolls in or you witness the aftereffects of an avalanche, the mountains can move very quickly from a place of fun to somewhere extremely sinister."
Pearse went on to say that the article she read "described how after antibiotics first came into use as a treatment for tuberculosis, many sanatoria became hotels."
"Looking at the photographs of these buildings, from the huge windows to the sterile interiors, got me thinking about how it would feel to stay as a guest in a building with such a clinical past. I really played with this in the design of Le Sommet, the minimalist hotel set in the old sanatorium. There are lots of macabre reminders of the building’s dark past," the author added.
The Sanatorium is a New York Times Top Ten bestseller and a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller. It's been translated into over 30 languages and has sold over half a million copies.
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