Having said this, once you get past the first section, you can really see Pearse’s writing style – her ability to reveal things not through narration but through the characters. There are also a few parts in these pages (and the book as a whole) where some things are slightly over-described. The first 50 pages or so of this book are a little fast-paced as sentences are rather short, spurring the reader on rather quickly. Just two days into the trip, Elin’s brother, Isaac, tells her his fiancée and her childhood friend is missing.įrom then onwards, we follow the nervous and constantly panicking Elin as she tries to solve the case – with no police coming due to the snowy conditions, no official jurisdiction, and murders to solve. The unnerving thing is, that this stylish hotel used to be a sanatorium. The party takes place in a luxury hotel high up in the mountains, over 2,000 feet high. The narrative of her novel follows former detective Elin Warner as she reluctantly embarks on a journey to the Swiss Alps with her boyfriend, Will, to meet her brother for his engagement party. Always drawn to creepy and peculiar things, the writer has allowed the macabre to creep beautifully into her first release. Pearse is a young writer who lives by the sea with her husband and two daughters.
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