![]() Given the atmospheric, claustrophobic setting in the Swiss Alps during a blizzard I expected to like this book much more than I did – I wonder what went wrong here? ![]() And she's the only one who could have warned them just how much danger they are all in. With the storm closing off all access to the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic.Įlin is under pressure to find Laure, but no one has realized yet that another woman has gone missing. And when they wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. ![]() But Elin's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept.Īrriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge-there's something about the hotel that makes her nervous. ![]() Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.Īn imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. Half hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. ![]()
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![]() ![]() To be perfectly honest, straight up mysteries are not my thing. As the truth of her family’s past hides in the shadows, it’s clear someone will stop at nothing to keep the answers she’s searching for hidden forever–even if the cost is Wynter’s very life. With research for work as her cover, she sets out with one of the station’s photogs for the place where the picture was taken: the town of Sanctuary.Īlmost as soon as she arrives, she meets the town’s handsome young mayor, Rueben King, and together they begin to uncover long held secrets that could tear the small town apart and change everything Wynter thought she knew about her life. So when she stumbles across a photograph of a boy with an eerie resemblance to him, she can’t pass up the chance to track him down. ![]() Louis, but even a bright future doesn’t take away her pain over the disappearance of her brother nine years ago. Wynter Evans is a promising young reporter for a television station in St. ![]() ![]() There are additional tidbits about his condition that pop up in this story, which are quite interesting, but aren’t really critical to the story as a whole. The novelty of Stephen’s unique condition has worn off somewhat – the reader already knows how it works, so we don’t need to spend any time trying to figure that out. ![]() While I really enjoyed this installment of the Legion story, I have to say I didn’t like it quite as much as the first novella. In this story, Stephen is hired by one of his friends to investigate a missing corpse that has company secrets stored in its DNA, which leads to a fun detective story full of the usual hijinks one would expect when dealing with spies, assassins, and imaginary bodyguards. Hence his desire to use his special consulting skills to bring in an income. The only problem – he has to pretend that his imaginary friends are real, which means providing them with food and shelter, which can be a rather costly enterprise. He has a mental condition in which he creates personalities to house his vast collections of knowledge. The main character is Stephen Leeds, a detective who is brilliant, but a bit eccentric. ![]() ![]() Like its predecessor, Legion: Skin Deep, is a bit of a departure for Brandon Sanderson, who is more well-known for his lengthy epic fantasy sagas. ![]() ![]() ![]() Against his own better judgement, Merrick finds himself dispatched to Bedlam under orders to bring back cinchona cuttings at any cost.Īs Merrick travels into hostile territory, he meets Raphael, a priest around whom the villagers spin unsettlingly familiar stories of impossible disappearances and living stone. But somewhere inside are cinchona trees, whose bark yields quinine: the only known treatment for malaria.īy 1859, on the other side of the Pacific, the hunt for a reliable source of quinine is critical and the India Office searches out its last qualified expeditionary, the injured Merrick Tremayne. ![]() The shrine statues move, and anyone who crosses the border dies. From the internationally bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street comes an astonishing historical novel set in the magical forests of South America, perfect for fans of The Night Circus, The Essex Serpent and The Museĭeep in uncharted Peru, the holy town of Bedlam stands at the edge of a forest. ![]() ![]() The staff at the hospital in this cancer ward put up with old-fashioned equipment and understaffing, and so they’re not all very sympathetic to the patients. ![]() ![]() The treatment he undergoes is very rudimentary and, at times, unsafe. Although his cancer is aggressive, he responds well to radiation treatment and hopes to make it out of the hospital someday. He stays with other cancer patients in a small hospital in Soviet Central Asia. The main protagonist Oleg Kostoglotov has recently been released from a slave labor camp and lives in exile, but he now suffers from stomach cancer. Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. Although banned in Russia following its publication, Cancer Ward received widespread critical acclaim. ![]() Solzhenitsyn spent time in a Russian labor camp and uses some of his experiences to enrich the novel. Cancer Ward (1968), a novel by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, follows a group of patients in a cancer ward, focusing on the implications of Stalin’s earlier “Great Purge” and how a police state is itself cancerous. ![]() |