Read by Michael Crouch, Gail Shalan and Helen Lloyd
10 hours, 10 minutes
Published September 2024 by Penguin Publishing Group
Publisher's Summary:
Alfred Smettle is not your average Hitchcock fan. He is the founder, owner, and manager of The Hitchcock Hotel, a sprawling Victorian house in the White Mountains dedicated to the Master of Suspense. There, Alfred offers his guests round-the-clock film screenings, movie props and memorabilia in every room, plus an aviary with fifty crows.
To celebrate the hotel's first anniversary, he invites his former best friends from his college Film Club for a reunion. He hasn't spoken to any of them in sixteen years, not after what happened.
But who better than them to appreciate Alfred's creation? And to help him finish it.
After all, no Hitchcock set is complete without a body.
My Thoughts:
I'll be honest - it's been a while since I finished this one and my feelings about it are a little faded so this will be short and bullet points.
- I loved the use of multiple narrators and all three did an excellent job.
- I'm a fan of Hitchcock's work so this one was fun with all of the talk about and references to his movies. I had no idea how many movies he'd made.
- I did struggle trying to figure out why any of the "friends" were friends with Alfred to begin with. He was always creepy. Think Norman Bates creepy.
- There's a maid named Danny, which took me straight to Rebecca, the movie adaptation of which was directed by Hitchcock.
- This one was a little slow building up but once it hit its stride, Wrobel had a lot of surprises for me. Maybe they won't come as surprises for you - you know how rarely I figure out who done it.
- That's right, I said surprises. Who dies is just one of them. What happened to break up the friend group is another. And then there's of course, who done it and why.
- This was my first book by Wrobel. While it was slow to get going, it was worth it and I'll probably pick up another of her books.
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