Strangers Behind Closed Doors
A Novel
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- Pedido anticipado
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- Se espera: 9 jun 2026
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- $249.00
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- Pedido anticipado
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- $249.00
Descripción editorial
"A thought-provoking thriller filled with jaw-dropping twists that kept me racing through the pages." —Gigi Pandian, USA Today bestselling author of the Secret Staircase Mysteries
A twisty thriller about a woman who vanishes from a luxury hotel, and the detective who believes the case is tied to the unsolved disappearances of other Black women in the city.
Giovanni Mason worked hard to become the first Black head concierge at Chicago’s exclusive and glamorous Ivory Hotel. It’s a job that requires patience, perfection, and, above all, self-control. But when Giovanni reunites with her former best friend, makeup influencer Natalie Moore, things get heated as a mending of fences morphs into a public argument in the hotel restaurant, and Giovanni loses her cool. Hours later, Natalie is missing. Evidence piles against Giovanni—a ransacked, blood-spattered hotel room, fresh bruises on her body, and a troubling gap in her memory from the last twelve hours.
Detective Redding Stark is the only one unconvinced of Giovanni’s guilt. She sees disturbing parallels to a series of disappearances targeting Black women and believes Natalie’s case is part of something bigger. Together, she and Giovanni are pulled into a dangerous web of privilege, power, and betrayal inside—and far beyond—the walls of the Ivory Hotel.
Will Giovanni and Detective Stark find Natalie or join the missing?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The solid first thriller from West (The Two Lives of Sara) spins the search for a missing influencer into a treatise on race, labor, and the failures of law enforcement. Giovanni Mason is proud to be the first Black chief concierge at Chicago's luxurious Ivory Hotel. The job requires supreme self-control and saintly patience with the Ivory's demanding clientele, but Giovanni's professional veneer cracks after she encounters her former friend Natalie Moore, now a popular influencer, at the check-in desk. The pair's cordial catch-up devolves into a shouting match and culminates with Giovanni slapping Natalie. When Natalie vanishes soon after, leaving behind a trashed hotel room, police detective Redding Stark connects her disappearance to a string of attractive Black women who've recently gone missing on Chicago's South Side. Redding's colleagues, however, think Giovanni's outburst makes her an easy suspect to pin Natalie's disappearance on. West alternates between Redding's and Giovanni's perspectives as the investigation unfolds, exploring the intersections between the case and the women's private lives as Black Chicagoans trying to make ends meet. Though West paints her villains with a broad brush and layers in perhaps one too many subplots, the core mystery is strong enough to keep readers hooked. This entertains.
