Crime book of the MONTH
THE SANATORIUM
by Sarah Pearse (Penguin Random House, RRP $37)
As those great philosophers the Eagles once put it, “You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.”
It’s a message first-time writer Sarah Pearce clings to in , her thriller set in an isolated hotel in the Swiss Alps where, thanks to a freak snowstorm, not everyone who arrives gets to go home (there’s also the small matter of a deranged killer stalking the corridors of the luxury hotel).
