Elin sees what she thinks is blood on the rug in Isaac and Laure’s room, but Isaac says Laure cut herself shaving. The ending is simply baffling and the murderer and their motive is really, really stupid. I’ve seen better villains in Scooby-Doo. It honestly sounds like one of the more silly episodes of Criminal Minds, where you finish it and go “well that was a whole lot of … something”. So let me get this straight: a woman was raped so she kills the guy to get revenge (okay I follow so far) but she also kills other women (innocent women!!!) to shed light on the fact that women in the 1920s were abused at the sanatorium. Um…. So she … kills women …. To shed light on. … women who were … murdered…… hmmmmmmmmmmmmm….. something isn’t adding up here :D The whole message of this book is basically don’t silence women and try to bury their trauma, yet the main villain, who is actively advocating for this, literally does silence women by torturing and murdering them! Yikes!!

The Sanatorium has my name written all over it. Another one of my most anticipated reads of the year, another 5 ⭐️ ! Do I have a good eye or what? It combines all my favorite ingredients: remote location (the Swiss Alps), characters with some kind of past trauma, a blizzard that isolates them and several mysterious (and pretty disturbing) deaths. What's not to like? Why did everyone ignore the fact that Laure pushed Elin into the pool? Well, because, according to the epilogue, it was actually some creepy stalker guy! There's going to be a sequel! Why did Elin think it was Laure and not realize it was creepy stalker guy? Add that to the many mysteries of this book. Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge. Though it's beautiful, something about the hotel, recently converted from an abandoned sanatorium, makes her nervous - as does her brother, Isaac. It is a dark and eerie novel, full of twists and turns. I loved Elin and her inner voice, could she trust herself, what did she really want? I was completely lost in the story and read this over a weekend.WHAT WAS THAT FINAL CHAPTER? The Sanatorium ending, explained — or at least the possibilities explored! The Sanitorium is a stunning debut novel by Sarah Pearse that cleverly leaves the way open for a sequel. I can't wait! The Sanatorium Movement in America". The White Plague in the City of Angels. University of Southern California . Retrieved May 12, 2017.

The worst thing though is the way men and women are portrayed. I am well aware how colored my reading life has become these days. I don't know if its good or bad or simply inevitable to see everything I read through the eyes of a woman in 2020. Every single time a man explains a woman's job to her, hits on her with thinly veiled harassing language and sexual aggression, does something "for her own good" or treats her as anything less than an equal I just cringe. And then I get kind of angry. At an isolated hotel high in the Swiss Alps, cut off by bad weather and avalanches, a woman is murdered in a bizarre manner and another woman is missing. With the police unable to get to the hotel, guest Elin Warner, a detective currently on extended leave from the British police, has no choice but to start the investigation and liase with Swiss Police.Maitland, Leslie (1989). "The Design of Tuberculosis Sanatoria in Late Nineteenth Century Canada". Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada. 14 (1): 5–13. hdl: 10222/71570. Will is a little too chill about everything. People are being murdered and he keeps telling her to wait for the police. He's the one person who has seen Elin be a police officer before. Elin finds a secret tunnel. She and Lucas go to investigate and find the killer’s lair. Margot is there, injured and dying. She turns to Lucas to say that Margot was working with someone else, but Lucas has disappeared. 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)

Elin goes to Cecile for help and they search Lucas’s office for clues. Cecile confesses that Daniel’s body was actually found in the hotel but that Lucas dumped it so as not to get bad publicity. SPOILERS: Who was the killer in the Sanatorium? Sarah has always been drawn to the dark and creepy - remote spaces and abandoned places - so when she read an article in a local Swiss magazine about the history of sanatoriums in the area, she knew she’d found the spark of the idea for her debut novel, The Sanatorium. 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. The whole novel is very creepy and sinister. The murders are brutal and graphic. The sanatorium’s history was one of the most disturbing parts along with the use of past medical equipment. The hotel has a sterile and clinical feel. It is stark in contrast to the snowy mountainous setting.

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Laure texts Elin asking to meet. Instead, Elin finds Laure’s body. They also find a flash drive and a copper bracelet at the scene. The hotel CCTV cameras are down and the weather is still too bad for the police to get to them. Elin thinks Lucas and Cecile are acting strangely. Add in the chilling vibe of the hotel and the bad winter storm: you got yourself an engaging gothic thriller.

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.By the early 1950s it was clear that not everyone who had TB could be treated in a sanatorium or hospital that provided strict bed rest. There were far too many people with TB, and too few sanatorium beds, particularly in less developed countries such as India. But with the development of TB drugs, was bed rest still necessary? Was bed rest still an advantage? The answer was to come with the "Madras experiment". The Madras experiment The setting really is marvelous. The hotel is a remodeled sanatorium that treated TB patients hundreds of years ago and the super sensitive Elin finds the entire place sterile and horribly frightening. Author Sarah Pearse's descriptions are excellent, much of my initial delighted fear was invoked entirely on the images she conjured in my head of the stark mountains, endless snow and this huge, strange building echoing with horrifying memories of death and pain. The Margot twist was stupid. I can't understand the motivation for her joining Cecile in murdering people. She just lost her mom, right? So how can she justify helping kill someone else's mom? I also don't understand how she was smart enough to lead a false trail (of a body being dragged) out of her room or pretend to tie herself up (and turn off the lights at the same time). On the subject of turning out to be wrong, Elin is also not a great detective. Part of her trouble is that she keeps second guessing herself. Okay, I get that. Past mistakes haunt her. But you'd think that in ANY of her second guessing, she's realize all of her theories are wrong until the very last minute. Seriously, she went from thinking it was Isaac to Laure to Margot to Lucas and was wrong each time. In addition to fresh air he allowed his patients 'a nutritious diet of mild, fresh animal and farinaceous food, aided by the stimulus of a proper quantity of wine, having regard to the general state and condition of the patient' [efn_note]R.Y.Keers, Pulmonary Tuberculosis a Journey down the Centuries, 1978[/efn_note]