Hotel Paradise

A neglected lake. A once-fashionable, now fading resort hotel. A derelict house full of secrets and dusty furnishings. A death-by-drowning of a 12-year-old girl forty years past. And another 12-year-old girl who grows increasingly obsessed with this death and begins to put together the pieces of a past and present puzzle.

Hotel Paradise is a delicate yet excruciating view of the decisions a young girl must make on her way to becoming an adult and the choices she must make between right and wrong, between love and truth, between life and death. With its narrative grace, its compelling characters, and its intricate suspense, Hotel Paradise is Martha Grimes at the top of her form.

The End of the Pier, by Martha Grimes, is also available as a Random House Price-Less Audio.