She stabs Will, nearly killing him, and escapes. When Margot, the spa receptionist, goes missing next, Elin springs into action to find her before the killer strikes again.Įlin and Will find Margot in the maintenance room, but she attacks them, revealing that she took part in the murders because her relative was tortured at the old sanatorium, where the hotel now stands. She confronts them about it, and Cecile reveals that the police found Daniel Lemaitre’s remains, and that Lucas didn’t want her to know. Will and Elin overhear the hotel owner, Lucas Caron, and his sister Cecile having a suspicious conversation in the stairs leading from the penthouse. Will rescues her, scaring off the killer. Shocked by Laure’s murder, Elin begins to examine the body for clues, but she is also attacked by a masked assailant, just like the one who killed Daniel Lemaitre and Adele. She receives a mysterious message from Laure asking to meet at the penthouse, but when Elin goes to meet her, Laure is already dead in the lift. Elin’s suspicions land on Laure when CCTV proves that she is still alive and hiding somewhere in the hotel. One of the hotel employees, Adele, turns up dead in one of the pools, and Elin must investigate on behalf of the local police. Will tries to enjoy their trip, but Elin has a sense of unease that she can’t shake.Īfter Laure goes missing, an avalanche traps a few guests and members of staff in the hotel. Elin and Will arrive a few days before everyone else, but a snowstorm looms, pummeling the mountain resort. Two years later, Isaac’s fiancée Laure is working at the hotel as an assistant manager, and the pair decide to invite family and friends to Le Sommet to celebrate their engagement. His disappearance is downplayed, so as not to sour the hotel opening.

In the prologue, Daniel Lemaitre, the hotel architect, is accosted by a masked assailant while leaving the unfinished hotel site. Isaac’s fiancée, Laure Strehl, works at Le Sommet, a hotel in the Swiss Alps that was built on the site of an old sanatorium where tuberculosis patients were once treated. Protagonist Elin Warner is a young police detective from the UK, who with her boyfriend Will Riley has gone to Switzerland to celebrate her brother Isaac’s engagement.

The sanatorium book cover