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About The Book
From the USA TODAY and nationally bestselling author of Darling Rose Gold comes a dark, suspenseful novel about a hotelier in New England planning a reunion with his oldest friends, the founding members of a campus film club devoted to Alfred Hitchcock.
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.
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.
About The Author
Photograph by Simon Way
Stephanie Wrobel is the author of Darling Rose Gold, a USA TODAY and international bestseller that has sold in twenty-one countries and was shortlisted for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Wrobel grew up in Chicago and now lives in London. This Might Hurt is her second novel. Visit her at StephanieWrobel.com and connect with her on Twitter @StephWrobel and Instagram @StephanieWrobel.
Product Details
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (September 24, 2024)
- Length: 352 pages
- ISBN13: 9781668002216
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Raves and Reviews
“This locked-room mystery contains masterful pacing. Wrobel's third novel artfully blends suspense with mystery, tying in quotes from Hitchcock as well as research about his work that will be intriguing to Hitchcock amateurs and aficionados alike.”
— Booklist (starred review)
“Wrobel deftly juggles seven point-of-view characters, finding and harnessing their unique voices with practiced ease.”
— Kirkus Reviews
“Hitchcock fans will delight in the copious easter eggs.”
— Publishers Weekly
“A clever, sinister fun-house ride.”
— People Magazine
“At first, the story seems to run along a familiar bullied-student-seeks-revenge-years-later track. But it takes some unexpectedly pleasing, if loopy, detours. . . Fans of Hitchcock will appreciate the many allusions to his work.”
— The New York Times
“Wrobel wittily recreates the mood of creeping suspense and comic horror that makes [Hitchcock’s] movies so endlessly entertaining.”
— The Times
“Hugely readable and tremendous fun. As twisty as a Hitchcock film, full of mystery and suspense, this is a hotel I recommend checking into – even if there’s no guarantee you’ll make it out alive. . ."
—ALEX MICHAELIDES, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient
“A slow burn of suspense, secrets, and lies that—in true Hitchcockian fashion—explodes into a series of twists, each more jaw-dropping than the last.”
— RILEY SAGER, New York Times bestselling author of The Only One Left
“Masterful in its layering of secrets and suspense, The Hitchcock Hotel is not only a clever tribute to the acclaimed movie maestro, but also a locked room nail-biter in itself. I loved it!”
— ROZ NAY, bestselling author of Our Little Secret
“Fans of Knives Out, Agatha Christie, and (of course) Alfred Hitchcock, rejoice! The Hitchcock Hotel is cool, classy – but such fun; reverent – yet so original. And – above all – almost biologically impossible to put down once picked up. Hitchcock would’ve loved it. I sure as hell did.”
— A. J. FINN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of End of Story and The Woman in the Window
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