~ Hardcover

~ New Release - 2022

Detective Elin Warner must uncover the truth behind the suspicious deaths on a stunning island getaway where most people came to the retreat to relax, recharge, and refresh, but someone else came here for revenge . . . 

In The Retreat, Sarah Pearse smartly reworks Agatha Christie’s classic setting, making her island at once a gothic throwback, with caves and talk of a curse, and a very 21st-century escape, with green values and holistic therapy as she weaves a well-written fusion of psychological thriller and classic whodunnit.

“Full of foreboding and high-stakes tension ... The past doesn't stay buried for long, at sea or on land, and what comes to the surface is both shocking and chilling.” -- Nita Prose, bestselling author of The Maid