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The Sanatorium

Reese's Book Club (A Novel)

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The Sanatorium

Written by: Sarah Pearse
Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
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 REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK | An instant New York Times bestseller!

A page-turning thriller from the author of The Retreat.

“An eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat.” —Reese Witherspoon

“This spine-tingling, atmospheric thriller has it all… and twists you’ll never see coming.” —Richard Osman, New York Times bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club

You won't want to leave. . . until you can't.

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.

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.

Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge--there's something about the hotel that makes her nervous. And when they wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. With the storm closing off all access to the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic.

Elin is under pressure to find Laure, but no one has realized yet that another woman has gone missing. And she's the only one who could have warned them just how much danger they are all in. . . Mystery Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction Fiction Exciting

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My first audible book, and I must say I enjoyed the format, and for a dark and creepy book, it was perfect. The story itself was good for about the first half, and then it started to fall apart. The book is much too long so it loses momentum considerably until i'm thinking "figure this out already." I did skip a bit. The ending was a disappointment. After all the build-up it was totally no surprise. I didn't care for the protagonist or any of the characters for that matter. I will try another book in this format because I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

Performance was great, story not so much.

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The story was well written with details that kept me interested. I wasn't able to predict what was happening which made the story ever changing and kept me on edge to learn what was going to happen.

Couldn't stop listening!

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Picked this up on a whim. I love Reese Witherspoons book picks. This was a good read, in fact I polished it off in about 3 days! Good who did it read!

Who did it

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I was very excited about this book and thought it started out really well. I would say I was interested in the first 9 hours of the book but the ending was so weak. The storyline was poorly orchestrated and the reasoning was hard to believe.
Also Elin was a hard character to support. She was a detective but everytime she was faced with a stressful situation - she froze. She couldn't possibly be good at her job and make it to "detective level" if she was that averse to risk. would not recommend.

Thought it would be much better

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The narrator was great, book was blah at best. I struggled to get into it and it was suspenseful to begin, then just become dull after a while.

weak storyline

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