The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1)

by Sarah Pearse

For her, even easy, everyday things became something to be agonized over until they swelled out of all proportion.

Adele loves her son wholly, absolutely, but sometimes she struggles to remember who she was before. What her world was like before it had been deconstructed, reassembled into something else entirely.

And thats why motherhood is not for me

This is the anomaly, she thinks, the tension she’s picked up on. This juxtaposition . . . it’s chilling. Institution butting up against beauty.

the intricate decor an attempt to conceal the fact that this was not a place where someone came for fun.

This was a place where people struggled with illness, a place where people died. It makes sense now, her brother celebrating his engagement here. This place, like Isaac, is all abo...

Glancing down, she freezes. A gloved hand is around her ankle. There’s a sudden tug, jerking her backward.