Martha Grimes: Hotel Paradise (USA 2013)

From the Publisher:
A once-fashionable now fading resort hotel. A spinster aunt living in the attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A twelve-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice-cream sodas, and decaying lake-fronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, forty years before. Hotel Paradise is a delicate yet excruciating view of the pettiness and cruelty of small town America. It is a look at the difficult 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.

Martha Grimes: Hotel Paradise. An Emma Graham Novel. Scribner eBook, ISBN: 9781476733012 (August, 2013), 2179 KB (ca. 450 p.), $11.99.

Martha Grimes: Hotel Paradise (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
A neglected lake, covered with water lilies. A once fashionable, now faded resort. A derelict house full of secrets, uninhabited for almost half a century. The death of a twelve-year-old girl forty years in the past. And another girl who becomes obsessed with this death. With her knack for encouraging adults to reminisce, she begins to piece together puzzles from the past and present.

HOTEL PARADISE is a delicate yet disturbing 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, love and truth, life and death. With its narrative grace, compelling characters, and intricate suspense, HOTEL PARADISE is Martha Grimes at the top of her form.

Martha Grimes: Hotel Paradise. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0345394259 (April, 1997), 438 p., $6.99.

Martha Grimes: Hotel Paradise (UK 1997)

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Spirit Lake, near Hotel Paradise, is notorious because a small child drowned there, over 40 years ago. A local 12-year-old girl has becomed obsessed with solving this mystery, and when a second death occurs, she begins to put together the pieces of a past and present puzzle.

Martha Grimes: Hotel Paradise. Headline, ISBN: 0747251355 (March, 1997), 406 p., £5.99.

Martha Grimes: Hotel Paradise (UK 1996)

From the Publisher:
A twelve year old girl becomes obsessed in the drowning of a small child in a neglected lake near Hotel Paradise forty years previously, and starts to piece together some of the events surrounding the tragedy which no-one has been able to explain.

From the author of THE END OF THE PIER.

Martha Grimes: Hotel Paradise. Headline, ISBN: 0747215383 (May, 1996), 346 p., £16.99.

Martha Grimes: Hotel Paradise (USA 1996)

From the Publisher:
Internationally acclaimed Martha Grimes once again turns her hand to crafting a story of such rich atmosphere and intricate suspense that she transports the reader to a world unlike any other.

A once-fashionable, now fading resort hotel. A spinster Aunt living in an attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A twelve-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice-cream sodas, and decaying lake-fronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, forty years before.

Like all important events in the past, there are repercussions and ramifications in the present. In the world as seen by Martha Grimes, those repercussions simmer and seethe and wind their way through hearts and souls. The ramifications can be subtle. Or exhilarating. Passionate. And they can also be deadly.

Hotel Paradise is a delicate yet excruciating view of the pettiness and cruelty of small town America. It is a look at the difficult 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. It is a novel with extraordinary range and depth that ultimately becomes a thrilling morality play.

With its narrative grace, its compelling characters, and its moment-to-moment suspense, Hotel Paradise is Martha Grimes at the top of her form.

Martha Grimes: Hotel Paradise. A Novel. Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN: 0679441875 (May, 1996), 347 p., $24.00.