As a genre, the crime thriller could be boiled down to these essential elements, with each new novel simply filling in the blanks like a game of Mad Libs to suit their particular niche. All the elements of a creepy thriller are laid out on a silver platter: the remote location, an old building with a horrific past, a cast of strange characters, a brilliant female detective trying to understand the mysteries of her childhood by solving a mystery in the present. There is so much that’s *right* with this novel’s setup that it’s almost depressing at how badly it fails in execution. My thoughts: Oh, beautiful cover, you’ve done me so wrong. Trapped by the snow, Elin must work alone to uncover the secrets of Le Sommet’s past and find the killer. When Isaac’s fiancée Laure goes missing, and a hotel employee winds up dead, Elin finds herself in the middle of a bizarre murder investigation. Synopsis: After suffering PTSD from a murder case gone wrong, Detective Elin Warner takes leave from her job and travels with her boyfriend Will to Le Sommet, a Swiss sanatorium turned luxury hotel, to celebrate her brother Isaac’s engagement.
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