The Retreat: The new top ten Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner Series Book 2)

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Will’s sister Farrah tells Elin that an ex has been hassling her. She has something else important to tell Elin but says she will do it later. Pearse goes from strength to strength in The Retreat. The suspense inexorably builds to a stunning climax. An added treat is the return of Elin Warner, who is a fascinating character one can only root for.' David Baldacci, No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Mercy Elin has to tell Will that Farrah is missing. But Will knew that Farrah testified against Creacher and didn’t tell Elin. And both of them wanted to work on the creepy island? Very odd. An atmospheric thriller with the perfect claustrophobic setting.This is equal parts creepy, suspenseful and gruesome—everything you could want in a novel for this genre. This is a sure-fire hit guaranteed to keep you seeing shadows in the snow on those freezing winter nights. I loved it.”

Elin is at work. After being taken off the MCIT (major crimes investigation team) after her mini-breakdown, she’s been moved to a burglary case. Just then, she gets a call to investigate the body at Lumen, as she’s the closest officer. She brings Steed with her.No one understands why Bea was on Carey Island when she was supposed to be on a business trip to the US. Bea called Caleb and said she was on her trip. She texted him the night before she died. R.F. Kuang, Sue Lynn Tan, Rebecca Ross, Kate Heartfield, N.E. Davenport, Saara El-Arifi, Juno Dawson and Sunyi Dean

Outside the cave, Elin says she will call the detective who worked the Creacher case. She also wonders if the cases are connected, why the perpetrator started up again after so many years. Steed wonders if it’s a copycat. He brought her to the island and they had a couple of drinks. He said after that she told him she got an upsetting text and said she had to call someone. Will you brave The Retreat this summer? The new bestselling thriller from the author of The Sanatorium. Deliciously paced with rich worldbuilding, The Retreat teems with questionable motives, unspoken frustrations, and hair-raising cliffhangers. Pearse’s latest thriller is a reminder that beneath the glimmering exterior of the places and people we love, vengeance often lurks. I absolutely could not put this book down!” She sees her colleague Steed (I don’t think we ever learn his first name. Or Anna’s last name.) and follows him to a body of a teenager who has been slashed.

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A woman is found dead below the yoga pavilion in what seems to be a tragic fall. But DS Elin Warner soon learns that the victim wasn't a guest - she wasn't meant to be on the island at all. If Sarah Pearse’s sensational debut The Sanatorium summoned the dangerous spirits of Gothic storytellers past, her new novel The Retreat recalls the one-by-one-by-one nerve-shredding of Agatha Christie at her darkest. Pearse is one of those rare contemporary writers—alongside Ruth Ware, Lucy Foley, and Alice Feeney—both reviving and refreshing the traditions of mystery fiction. A fresh, daring, irresistible thriller.” As Elin investigates, she gets to know the victim’s traumatized family better. They had all come to the retreat in an effort at family bonding, though some were more enthusiastic about it than others. Hana, our other main viewpoint character, is definitely on the less enthused end: Just like The Sanatorium, The Retreat tells a twisty, chilling and tense tale in a location so vividly imagined, you feel like you’re there too, among the guests. Long may Sarah Pearse continue to ruin the idea of luxury-resort travel for us all…”