by Sarah Pearse
First published 2021
Detective Elin Warner reluctantly travels to Le Sommet, a luxury hotel carved from an abandoned sanatorium high in the Swiss Alps. She arrives during a fierce storm to celebrate her estranged brother Isaac's engagement to Laure. The converted medical facility unsettles Elin from the moment she steps inside. Her unease proves justified when Laure vanishes overnight. The storm seals off all routes down the mountain, trapping everyone inside. Elin must draw on her investigative skills to search for the missing woman while the other guests grow increasingly frantic. The situation deteriorates when Elin discovers a second woman has also disappeared. This missing person holds crucial information about the danger stalking everyone at Le Sommet. Cut off from outside help and surrounded by suspects, Elin races to uncover the truth before more people vanish into the mountain's grip.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful
Tropes: isolated-group, locked-room, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Le Sommet, Swiss Alps
Period: Present Day
390 pages · Hardcover · Pamela Dorman Books