The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1)

by Sarah Pearse

Elin wondered if she’d ever met anyone truly like that before—optimistic, excited by life. Excited by every little thing.

This is about getting him to admit what he did, once and for all.

Making a belt out of watches, it’s a waist of time.

I chose to do it because of you, Isaac. Because of what you did.

The most easily manipulated? Social media. The extrovert colleague, having a meal with her “squad,” could in fact be eating alone, reading a book. The artsy shot of the prizewinning book? Discarded after the first page.

He can’t have been involved in her disappearance.

What it must have felt like to sink below that water and know that you were never coming back up.

From now on, I’m going to do what I want. To hell with anyone who stands in my way.