In black and gold and a bright arsenic green, this is undeniably one of the best-looking books about true crime to ever grace my desk.

Hana reads Jo’s text messages and finds a message from Bea to Jo saying that Jo has to tell Hana something.Now she’s an adult, she can decide how often she sees her sister, the kind of relationship they have.

Gut-wrenching, taut, and brilliantly claustrophobic, The Retreat delivers twist after devastating twist.Tom comes to tell them he saw a man running across the bridge to the islet (where the isolated villa is). The artist that did the piece in reception told me he went to the old school here, the one that burned down. The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse is an eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat. There’s the remote location, a police detective with limited resources, and fractured family dynamics.

Initially, Pearse has described Le Sommet as a place overshadowed by high peaks and half-hidden by dense forests. Despite the fine dining, upscale accommodations, and amenities like yoga and kayaking, an old series of murders haunts the island, now rumored to be cursed. Just like The Sanatorium, The Retreat tells a twisty, chilling and tense tale in a location so vividly imagined, you feel like you’re there too, among the guests.

Elin Warner series, and while you can read the novel as a stand-alone, familiarity with Elin’s background would be helpful to understanding her character’s emotional arc.

He tells her about another girl, Lois Wade, who went missing from an Outward Bound trip before the Creacher incident. Pearse’s mother was particularly instrumental in helping her develop her creative brain and imaginative powers. After that, she worked in the field of Brand PR and was involved in the promotion of several well-known brands. When you login first time using a Social Login button, we collect your account public profile information shared by Social Login provider, based on your privacy settings. This is the second book about DS Elin Warner, the other one was The Sanatorium but can be read on their own.

The isolated, imposing getaway spot of Le Somet located high up in the Alps of Switzerland is the last place she wants to visit. I’m beginning to think the culprit behind all that might be Will, and that Will never told Elin that he and Farrah had a third sibling who was a victim of Haller. And when someone else drowns in a diving incident, Elin begins to suspect that the old stories about the island are true.