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During five sultry days, the lives of the guests, the management, and the workers at New Orleans's largest and most elite hotel converge. The owner has four days to raise the money to save his financially ailing property. The general manager, once blacklisted from the hospitality business, struggles with one crisis after another. A rebellious heiress will do anything to attain her secret desires. The duke and the duchess in the lavish presidential suite are covering up a crime. And within one of the many guest rooms hides a professional thief.

The Grand Hotel is a horror novel by esteemed best-selling author Scott Kenemore ( Zombie, Ohio) that takes the reader on a thrilling ride through an interconnected series of stories narrated by the desk clerk and the residents of the hotel itself. And while it is not known whether or not the desk clerk is actually the devil incarnate, it is strange that so many visitors who come for a tour of the hotel have a way of never leaving.

Lily Jones is thrilled to find herself in the 1950s. She misses her 21st century life but has a blossoming romance with her musician friend Louis and her dream job working on a movie set. The lead actress Kitty Fox is a rising star, yet Lily recalls that after this movie she goes missing, her disappearance an unsolved mystery that barely makes a ripple in Hollywood history. But as Lily begins to understand the brutal studio system of Hollywood in the 1950s, she wonders if there might be something sinister at play behind Kitty's vanishing.

Haben wir uns nicht alle eine Auszeit verdient? Alles, was Alice will, ist ein geruhsamer Urlaub auf einer vom Meer umrauschten Insel – als plötzlich die Jugendliche aus dem Nebenzimmer verschwindet. Alice forscht nach, doch niemand will das Mädchen kennen. Weder die Gäste noch das übereifrige Personal, ja, nicht einmal die Eltern des Kindes. Stimmt etwas nicht mit Alice' Erinnerungen? Der Einzige, der Alice nicht für verrückt erklärt, ist der mürrische Kellner Aron, der Geheimnisse über das Hotel zu wahren scheint... Alice versucht, den Kellner auf ihre Seite zu ziehen.

When the security director of the posh Hotel California abruptly departs, assistant manager Am Caulfield steps into the role. The newbie hotel detective is quickly overwhelmed when a murder-mystery weekend descends on the hotel at the same time as a Bob Johnson convention (yes, the attendees are all named Bob Johnson) - and that’s before a bra thief strikes, a contractor leaps to his death, and two more dead bodies turn up. Mayhem has checked in to the Hotel California. So, as it turns out, has a murderer. Like the little Dutch boy, Am must try and plug one leak after another.

Una novela escrita a ritmo de rock, con guiños a los clásicos de terror y una vuelta de tuerca que te llevará a un sitio del que quizás nunca puedas, o quieras, salir. Damián huye de dos asesinos que lo persiguen en una solitaria carretera en el desierto. Logra eludirlos pero su automóvil...

When a bomb rips the façade off the Kensington Hotel in Tokyo, dozens are killed and injured while one man walks calmly away from the wreckage, a coy smile playing on his lips. Former Army intelligence officer Dan Reilly, now an international hotel executive with high level access to the CIA, makes it his mission to track him down. He begins a jet-setting search for answers as the clock ticks down to a climactic event that threatens NATO and the very security of member nations.

Sam is a war photographer famous for her hauntingly beautiful pictures of the dead. After a particularly gruelling assignment, she checks in to an expensive hotel. Unfortunately she has chosen the exact moment terrorists attack the hotel. Abhi, the manager, thought his hotel was a safe haven, a place where he could be himself. Now stuck inside his office, he is desperately trying to keep those safe who're still alive....

Genevieve Bowles, an award-winning songwriter, is invited to visit the newly refurbished Hotel Paradise. Genevieve knows the hotel well - in fact, her past life there has haunted her for over a decade.... Twelve years earlier, two travelers meet in Paris. Full of optimism, Genevieve and Paul head south to the Riviera, where they start work at the Hotel Paradise. But when a stranger arrives who threatens her future with Paul, Genevieve senses that events are about to spin out of control.

Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, public prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel bar when 12 heavily armed men pull out guns and take everyone hostage. Among the hostages is Konrad Hoogsmart, the hotel owner, who is being targeted by a man whose life - and family - have been destroyed by Hoogsmart’s actions. With the police looking on from outside - their colleagues’ lives at stake - and Chastity on the inside, increasingly ill from sepsis, the stage is set for a dramatic confrontation.

Para dziennikarzy z Polski wyjeżdża na wygraną w konkursie wycieczkę do Lizbony. Już pierwszego dnia pobytu dochodzi do tragicznego wypadku, a dziwne zachowanie pilotki zapowiada, że nie będzie to sielski wypoczynek. Sceptycznie nastawiony do wyjazdu Michał zostaje mimo woli włączony w ciąg nieprzyjemnych wydarzeń, począwszy od bójki z hotelowym włamywaczem, aż po próby zastraszania. Gdy w polskiej grupie dochodzi do kolejnych nagłych śmierci, Michał na własną rękę próbuje rozwikłać sprawę.

"En 1860, la réputation du docteur Wybrow de Londres était arrivée à son apogée. Les gens bien informés affirmaient que de tous les médecins en renom, c'était lui qui gagnait le plus d'argent. Un après-midi, vers la fin de l'été, le docteur venait de finir son déjeuner après une matinée d'un travail excessif. Son cabinet de consultation n'avait pas désempli et il tenait déjà à la main une longue liste de visites à faire lorsque son domestique lui annonça qu'une dame désirait lui parler."

Beherzt hatte ich die Klinke ergriffen, sie heruntergedrückt und die schwere Metalltür aufgezogen...

The fog isn’t the only thing wreaking havoc at La Jolla’s landmark Hotel California. A prankster has been hiring employees for nonexistent jobs, a decomposing whale ends up beached in front of the hotel and interrupts a grunion run, and a group of swingers has arrived at the property for a love-in. Not for the first time, hotel detective Am Caulfield is overheard saying, “Hotels are like a circus without the tent.” In addition to those headaches, Am has more than a few mysteries on his hands: Which one of the hotel guests murdered the famed paranormal debunker in room 374?

Las mujeres del Flanagans es la segunda parte de la fascinante historia de uno de los hoteles más emblemáticos de Londres. Londres, Nochevieja de 1982. Es la década de 1980, el desenfreno y las fiestas nocturnas están a la orden del día. Como cada año, el lujoso hotel Flanagans da la...

De brute ontvoering van mediamagnaat Berndt Müller zet heel Zweden op zijn kop. Zijn vrouw en dochters zijn wanhopig en gaan, tegen het advies van de politie in, met de ontvoerders in gesprek. Maar wanneer ze het geëiste losgeld betalen, verandert er niets; Berndt blijft spoorloos. Als blijkt dat de ontvoerders allen hun eigen redenen hebben voor het misdrijf, slaat de vlam in de pan. Intussen ontdekt een klein meisje dat Berndt wordt vastgehouden op een onbewoond eiland voor de kust van Göteborg. Even lijkt zijn redding nabij, maar dan blijkt dat het meisje net zo gevangen zit als hij.

Das Crash-Hotel sucht junge, engagierte Mitarbeiter - die keine Fragen stellen, egal was sie sehen oder hören. Doch je länger man sich in diesem Gebäude aufhält, desto klarer wird: Irgendetwas stimmt dort nicht. Die merkwürdigsten Gestalten gehen dort ein und aus, die seltsamsten Dinge geschehen. Keine Fragen zu stellen, ist beinahe unmöglich. Jedoch sei geraten, es dennoch zu unterlassen. Die Folgen könnten fatal sein.

When a hotelier announces that he will be converting Springwood Hall into a smart country hotel, his plan is greeted with a chorus of local disapproval, led by the fearsome Hope Mapple, head of the Society for the Preservation of Historical Bamford. So the grand opening, to which all are invited, promises to be a lively affair, particularly since Hope is planning a disruptive protest "streak". However, Hope is to be unwittingly upstaged by the discovery of a recently murdered body on the premises.