Author: Jamie Day
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Date Published: July 16, 2024
What’s scarier than a closed room mystery? How about a hotel on a cliffside (aptly named The Precipice), with a hurricane coming, and a murderer on the loose!
Charley is a maid in a desperate situation – she can’t afford a place of her own and her Nana’s care fees both, so she’s lucky she has a free room (well, closet) at the hotel. But the owner has died – will the new owners be as generous? Day has done an excellent job of showing us the characters of each of the three Bishop sisters and their partners who come to stay for their Dad’s funeral. And then there’s the guest Charley is hiding from an ex-boyfriend. She’s protective of Charley, but can they trust her ex not to find her? Everything is precarious, not just the hotel, and it is all leading up to a crazy night of flickering lights, horrendous rain, and (dun dun dun)….murder.
I flew through this book in a day, and now I’m going back to read The Block Party!
Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an advanced reader’s copy of this thrilling read.
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