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The Sanatorium: The spine-tingling #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick (Detective Elin Warner Series)

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Now Elin has somehow got it into her head that her older brother, Isaac, murdered her younger brother. This is supported by random facts thrown in about temper tantrums and cruel memories about Isaac. But there are also memories of him holding Elin's hand at night when she was scared. Even though Elin hasn't seen him in 10 years she thinks he's totally evil. WHAT WAS THAT FINAL CHAPTER? The Sanatorium ending, explained — or at least the possibilities explored! Lots of other bad investigating takes place. I'm pretty sure anyone who's seen a couple of episodes of NCIS could've done better. Finally Elin gets a text from Laure telling her to meet her in the pent suite. At this point Elin suspects Laure, but she still thinks it's a great idea to go meet her alone, without telling anyone, without a weapon of any kind. (As I mentioned, "smort!") Just call this a case of the Ho-Hums. All the expectations I had were dashed fairly early on, and sadly I kept going even though it was clear this was failing to deliver.

Elin is a detective on leave for reasons not immediately provided to the reader, thereby allowing the reader to be a bit suspect of Elin’s reasonings. Suspense builds when another person goes missing. Meanwhile, the reader learns of procedures done to tuberculosis patients which adds more to sinister feel of the hotel. After 1943, when Albert Schatz, then a graduate student at Rutgers University, discovered streptomycin, an antibiotic and the first cure for tuberculosis, sanatoria began to close. As in the case of the Paimio Sanatorium, many were transformed into general hospitals. By the 1950s, tuberculosis was no longer a major public health threat; it was controlled by antibiotics rather than extended rest. Most sanatoria had been demolished years before. [ citation needed]Adding to the creep factor is that Elin is a bit estranged from her brother. He didn’t attend their mother’s funeral because he said he was too busy. Plus, Elin feels her brother Isaac had involvement in her other brother’s death. Elin has unresolved issues in confronting Isaac about the details surrounding her younger brother’s death. Le Sommet is a remote hotel in the Swiss Alps that used to be a tuberculosis sanatorium, and it has a troubled history. Elin visits Le Sommet for an engagement party for her brother Issac. Elin is a detective in the UK, but she is on leave after having experienced a traumatic event from solving a case. On top of that, Elin and Issac’s little brother died from an accident when they were young, and Elin is still searching for answers.

Topp, Leslie (1 December 1997). "An Architecture for Modern Nerves: Josef Hoffmann's Purkersdorf Sanatorium". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 56 (4): 414–437. doi: 10.2307/991312. JSTOR 991312. 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.Waverly Hills Sanatorium still source of local curiosity - Louisville Cardinal, 21 October 2003". Archived from the original on 5 November 2003 . Retrieved 2007-10-01. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link) Then she killed Laure, and then was going to kill Lucas, and I guess Elin would have been next? I don’t know – it was all a bit farfetched for me. Personally, I liked Margot as the killer a lot better. I guess she was helping Cecile, but still. What WAS that final chapter of The Sanatorium? The Sanatorium Ending Explained (or not!) Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge. And things only get worse when they wake the next morning to find her brother's fiancée is missing. With access to the hotel cut off, the guests begin to panic.

The winter storm adds more intrigue, especially as the police aren’t able to make their way to the hotel. The Mystery Half hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel. fivestarread #contemporaryfiction #crime #detectivefiction #familydrama #murdermystery #suspense #thriller Elin interviews everyone at the hotel and learns that Laure and Lucas were having an affair. Cecile gives Elin access to camera footage and they see Laure spying on Elin in the spa. Elin also sees a person who looks like Laure pushing her into the pool. Elin begins to suspect that Laure is responsible for the murders. When she tells Isaac her suspicions, he is angry. So while the atmosphere and spooky vibes were pretty spot on and I was intrigued for most of the book, it still fails as a mystery, jamming in as many “twists” as it possibly can with such a bland, boring cast of replaceable characters. Also, the epilogue makes it seem like this is going to be a series which is a no from me darling.Frith, John. "History of Tuberculosis. Part 2 – the Sanatoria and the Discoveries of the Tubercle Bacillus". Journal of Military and Veterans' Health . Retrieved May 12, 2017. Göran Schildt, Alvar Aalto - A Life's Work - Architecture, Design and Art, Otava Publishing, Helsinki, 1994. atmospheric read! Take a trip with Elin to the Swiss Alps for her estranged brother’s engagement celebration, staying at a 5 star hotel, converted from an old Sanatorium.

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