Since Dennis Lehane He took us to Shutter Island to discover what was going on in his sanitarium, any novel that poses a similar scenario has to face Di Caprio himself and his delusional case of the missing woman.
But let's not get prejudiced when faced with a novel that has already been taking hold in several countries. The truth is that it is not a suspense plot around the thresholds that give way between reason and madness. The thing is more than old shadows as an ideal environment to arouse disturbing suspicions.
But an old building does not have to carry its old ghosts, with the destiny for which it was built and with its gray days in which psychiatry was just a kind of decision between electroshocks or straitjackets ...
At the foot of the mountains, far from any sign of civilization in which to find the kindness of cement, the idyllic also has a side of reencounter with the atavistic when we are no longer, not even remotely, inhabitants of a natural space in which harbor hope of survival ...
You won't want to leave ... until you can't. Police Elin Warner receives an invitation from her brother, Isaac, with whom she has not spoken for years, to attend their engagement celebration at an isolated hotel in the Swiss Alps. In the midst of a storm, the hotel, once a sanitarium with a terrible past, is more sinister than welcoming.
The morning after his arrival, Isaac discovers that his fiancee, Laure, has disappeared without a trace. Trapped in the eerie hotel, the guests become suspicious of each other and tensions rise. And, without anyone knowing, another woman disappears, and, with her, the key to the danger they are in.
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