![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the characters and the story don’t live up to the spectacular setting. It calls to mind the classic Overlook Hotel. One can easily visualize the isolated resort, its echoey empty halls, the blizzard raging outside. Here is the good bit: the atmosphere did not disappoint. I was primed to love The Sanatorium: I expected (hoped for) a twisty, spooky mystery for cold autumn nights. The result is a potentially awesome locked room mystery.Įxcept that it doesn’t hit the awesome mark. Complicating their stay, mutilated bodies wearing vintage gas masks keep turning up, and, with the staff and most of the guests evacuated because of the weather, people now depend on Elin, the only quasi-police presence available. Elin hasn’t told patient, well-adjusted Will that she plans to accuse Isaac of Sam’s murder on this vacation. And after the death of her little brother Sam, for which she blames Isaac. Once a tuberculosis sanatorium, it is now an opulent destination, albeit one that is so remote it quickly gets cut off from civilization by a major avalanche.Įlin, a police detective on leave, is prone to panic attacks after nearly dying while working a case. Le Sommet is a gleaming, minimalist architectural achievement. Elin and her boyfriend Will travel to the Alps to celebrate the engagement of Elin’s brother Isaac and her former childhood friend, Laure. ![]()
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