The hotel was her refuge, but scandal is afootand a killer stalks the halls in this charming series debut perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Ashley Weaver. Its 1958 and Evelyn Elizabeth Grace Murphy has not left the Pinnacle Hotel in fourteen months. She suffers from agoraphobia, and whats more, its her fathers hotel, and everything she needs is there. Evelyns always been good at finding things, she discovered her mother dead in a Manhattan alleyway fifteen years earlier. Now shes finding trouble inside her sanctuary. At a party for artist Billie Bell, his newest work is stolen, and Evelyns fake boyfriend (and real best friend), movie star Henry Fox, is accused of the theft. But just as Evelyn sets out to prove Henrys innocence, she finds Billie Bell dead. The murder weapon links the crime to the hotels chief of security. But why would he use a knife with his initials on the handle? With her beloved home in disarray, Evelyn joins up with hotel employee (and her secret crush) Mac Cooper to get to the bottom of the case. As Mac picks locks and Evelyn snoops around the hotel, they discover the walls around them contain more secrets than they previously knew. Now, Evelyn must force herself to leave the hotel to follow the cluesbut when she and Mac set off to chase a lead, their car crashes and they barely escape with their lives. Someone snipped Evelyns brake lines, and now the stakes have become dangerously high. Evelyns knack for sleuthingand her playful imaginationare always hard at work, and she throws an elaborate party at the hotel where every guest is a suspect. But will the killer emerge from the glamorous lineup? If not, Evelyn just might find herself
next in line for murder.
- | Author: S. K. Golden
- | Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
- | Publication Date: May 16, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 320 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 163910478X
- | ISBN-13: 9781639104789