Ethan Parker - The Last Guest of the Alpine Hotel
The Last Guest of the Alpine Hotel
A Historical Fiction Mystery of Scandal, Suspicion, and a Body in the Snow
Ethan Parker
Description
The snow has sealed the hotel shut. The murderer is already inside.Winter has descended upon an elegant Alpine hotel, trapping a glittering collection of aristocrats, travelers, servants, and strangers beneath a blanket of snow.Then one of the guests is found dead outside the hotel.At first, it appears to be a tragic accident. But as whispers spread through the dining room and suspicion moves from one guest to another, troubling questions emerge. Why was the victim seen arguing with the hotel owner? Who searched his room before the body was discovered? And why does a seemingly insignificant object keep appearing where it should not?With the mountain passes buried and the roads impossible to cross, no one can leave.Everyone has an alibi.And almost everyone has a secret.As the storm intensifies, an unlikely investigator begins piecing together fragments of conversations, hidden rivalries, old scandals, and carefully constructed lies. What appears to be a collection of unrelated misfortunes gradually reveals a far more deliberate design.The deeper the investigation goes, the clearer one fact becomes:The dead guest was not the only person with a reason to fear the past.The Last Guest of the Alpine Hotel is a snowbound historical fiction mystery filled with secrets, scandal, suspicious guests, period atmosphere, and classic whodunit suspense.
