Many thanks to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for gifting me a digital ARC of the latest book by Stephanie Wrobel, and including me on the blog tour to celebrate its publication. All opinions expressed in this review are my own - 4.5 stars!
Alfred Smettle is a huge Hitchcock fan. He's also the founder, owner, and manager of The Hitchcock Hotel, a Victorian house in the White Mountains dedicated to Hitchcock and his films. To celebrate the hotel's first anniversary, he invites his former best friends from their college film club for a reunion. He hasn't spoken to any of them in 16 years, since an event in their senior year broke them apart. But no Hitchcock film is without a body.
I'm a big fan of Stephanie Wrobel - have you read Darling Rose Gold? While I am not a Hitchcock movie buff, I appreciate the few I've seen and love the locked-room mystery genre. There are multiple mysteries here - what exactly happened to the group of friends in their senior year? And who is dead and by whose hand? This one kept me guessing until the end, because everyone is keeping secrets and no one is really very likable. The setting was creepy, complete with an aviary full of crows. It's a wonderful homage to Hitchcock and an even better mystery!
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