Crime Mystery set in a New England hotel

Submitted: 18th October 2024

Hitchcock Hotel – Stephanie Wrobel

Imagine someone recreated the hotel from the Hitchcock films

Put all the props inside, built it to look exactly as you imagine and so you feel you are in the films for real.

Everything about this hotel, in the remote White Mountains in New England screams Hitchcock..

Would you ever be able to leave?

Crime Mystery set in a New England hotel

Map of locations in the Hitchcock Hotel

BOARDING PASS INFORMATION

Destination : New England

Author guide: Stephanie Wrobel

Genre: mystery

Food and drink to accompany: hotel room service

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A novel to transport you to a Hitchcock hotel

Map of locations in the Hitchcock Hotel

For fans of Hitchcock movies everywhere. The author here has taken Psycho and Rope I think and modelled a crime novel on the twists and emotions to come out of them. If you’re a fan, then you are probably going to get so much more out of it than if not. I have seen both films so I was keen to book in to this hotel – via a book of course. If someone did set up a hotel in real life that mirrored most of Hitchcock’s tropes, then I’m not sure I would be brave enough!

It was fun to spot references to the props and nods to the films. When the character who owns the hotel invites guests he has selected from film school, you feel things are going to get interesting. Well, the friends were an odd bunch – were they really friends? Seemed a bit like odd bods to me. Definately weird people who would have no qualms checking into such a hotel anyway. They all have plenty of secrets. Alfred is the Norman Bates of the group who invites these people to his hotel. And hotels from films are usually places where bad things happen…………..

There were some twists I spotted and others not so much but it didn’t spoil my fun. For any fan of horror movies and Hitchcock in particular, this was great fun. Clearly the author knows her stuff and her movies. Cleverly woven into a fun, quirky mystery.