This book looked and sounded intriguing, but honestly it just did not do it for me. It started to become tedious.

Detective Maria Miller and her partner return in this excellent installment of this supernatural thriller series. Two girls found dead on a bed in the Parker hotel. Spooky goings on raises this above your normal police procedural. Plenty of twists along the way. Thanks to Storm publishing and Netgalley for this review copy.

Wow wow wow out of this world amazing!
This had every element of an amazing read. Horror and gore, suspense galore, terrifying plot twists and some amazing characters. This one opened with the most horrific of events and then added some supernatural dashes and an epic read was created. I could not put this down. It was one of the best reads this year so far. I was sad when I got to the end I wanted to have more of this story to consume. A absolutely horror inducing fast paced read!

Creepy hotel and two dead girls.

Detective Maria Miller is back investigating 2 dead girls have been found on the 13th floor of a creepy New York hotel with a past of haunting events. Maria senses something isn't right when she sees a ghostly figure and with an identical murder from 40 years previous is this a copy cat or something far more sinister.

This was a good enjoyable quick thriller read. This book had a creepy atmosphere and some great twists. I have had a great time with this series.

Thank you to Netgalley, Storm Publishing and Helen Phifer for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This was a great crime book. I loved the supernatural spin on it - spooky vibes! Highly recommend to others and will recommend to my book group, perhaps in the fall

Every book I have read from this author I have loved and Helen's latest book
The Girls on Floor 13 by Helen Phifer was no different. This book is the third book in the excellent Detective Maria Miller series and I loved it. It was full of great twists and turns with a super natural twist which made it very creepy in places.....So no reading at night if you hate reading about ghosts..........But, it will keep you on your toes and awake all night if you do start to read The Girls on Floor 13, it is very addictive, I loved it!

I highly recommend this series but it read it in order...........Helen did not disappoint with this series.

Big Thank you to NetGalley and Storm Publishing for this ARC in exchange for an honest review

Detective Maria Miller, and her partner Frankie are back with another edge-of-the-seat thrillers that you cannot put down!
When two teenage girls are found dead in room 1303 of the Parker Hotel, Maria and her partner are trying to figure out what is going on. The case brings back another that happened several decades earlier. Who would want to kill young women and take their feet?
While they begin their investigation, they are soon met with more questions than answers, and the darker forces around them are starting to wreak havoc on their lives. Will they survive this latest case?

This is hands down one of my favorite books of the year. I was hooked on these from the first one, and I sure do hope there are more! Maria and Frankie make a great team, and the cases always bring a bit of nail-biting and heart-stopping sections. While they are dealing with paranormal aspects of cases, I really enjoy how these have a more earthy feel, not so far-reaching as some books I have read.

Highly recommend this one if you are looking for a great police procedural with a paranormal twist!

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This was the first time I have read something by Helen Phifer and I can honestly say I will be seeking out other books by her as I am now intrigued by her style of writing. A thriller but with a twist of paranormal thrown in made for a great read.

Thoroughly enjoyed this when I didn´t expect to! I´m off to find more books!

My thanks to NetGalley and Storm Publishing for giving me the opportunity to read an advanced digital copy in return for an honest review.

I really enjoy this series, so if it's the end of the road for the characters, as they seem to indicate, then I will be disappointed. But after going through the kind of crazy, scary shenanigans they endure, their (possible) choice to pull back from these cases is understandable. Still, th0ugh, again, I like coming along for the ride.

Thanks to Storm & Netgalley for an ARC of this book.

This is the 3rd in the Detective Maria Miller series & my favourite of the series.
Two teenagers are found murdered in a hotel… then Maria discovers a newspaper article of identical murders decades earlier. Is this coincidence or is there something sinister about this haunted hotel?

There are some similarities to the first book in the series. The plot moves quickly making this a quick and easy read, but enjoyable. It doesn’t feel rushed. I like the setting of the hotel and the supernatural element that runs through this series.

I would recommend reading the previous books but this could be read as a standalone. There are some references to events in the previous books.

This is a police procedural, murder mystery book with paranormal elements. The bodies of 2 teenagers are discovered in a rundown hotel which is popular for multiple deaths, murders and tragedies, and is rumoured to be haunted.

Detectives Marie and Frankie are investigating the case and have a history of prior supernatural cases. They believe the murderer works at the hotel but have no leads or evidence pointing at anyone.

This book is the third instalment in the Detective Miller series, but can be read as a standalone. However, there were references to the previous books which had me lost.

Overall, it was an interesting read with lots of surprises. Some parts were so creepy and gave me goosebumps. The book kept me guessing if it was a supernatural entity or just a crazy murderer.

This book will have you racing through the pages and sleeping with the lights on. I would recommend this book if you like a crime fiction with a paranormal twist.

Thank you so much Helen Phifer, Storm Publishing and Netgalley for this ARC copy!

Mystery, paranormal suspense, police work, and friendship all wrapped up in one.
The NYPD detectives Miller and Conroy have their work cutout for them when 2 teenage girls are murdered and feet removed in the Parker Hotel. This hotel has become synonymous over the past fifty years with death, murder, and tragedy. With one survivor from the 70's to aid the detectives in the, all too personal now, investigation, Marie Miller and Frankie Conroy work the case. Exhausting leads, bodies, and shadow spirits take their toll, but the the team works together to solve this paranormal mystery.
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The Girls on Floor 13 is a story based around Detective Maria Miller and is the 3rd in a series. I was sent this book from NetGalley as an advance readers copy and feel as though I was missing some information having only started reading the 3rd installment. When the book references the previous cases or Maria's relationships, I'm lost. This book also read like a young adult book but I did not see anything in the descriptions stating that it is in the young adult category.

Overall, the story is interesting - mysterious deaths are happening on the 13th Floor of the Parker Hotel and Maria and her partner are assigned to investigate. Not knowing this series at all, it was fun to speculate whether it was supernatural powers at work, or just gruesome murders done by a maniac.

I have to give this 3 stars because overall, the writing just wasn't my style. In addition to it sounding young adult, the dialogue at times (many times) was very unbelievable. Entire conversations were unrealistic and I found myself thinking "Do I know anyone that would say these things out loud?" It did not feel natural. In the end, I had to really struggle through the book. Perhaps a younger audience with a love for supernatural stories would enjoy it more than I did though!

Do you know I'd never been into the supernatural genre until I picked up a Helen Phifer book and whilst I wouldn't say I now look out for that category, I am obsessed with this series.

Detective Maria Miller and her partner Frankie Conroy are called out to a run down New York City hotel. A hotel that is plagued with urban myths and rumours of spirits, eerie goings on and The Blue Lady.

Up on Floor 13, in room 1303, Maria and Frankie are faced with the bodies of two young teenage girls, laid out on the beds, feet missing. Dory & Michelle had told their parents they were having a sleepover, unbeknown to them that they'd travelled to NY on a ghost hunt.

Maria is sure that the killer must work at the hotel, but on questioning the staff is left with no leads, no clues and no evidence left at the scene. Had the girls been lured to the hotel? How did they get into the room?

Soon after another body turns up, could this all be connected to a double murder that happened at the hotel decades ago?

This is a tale that leaves goosebumps on your skin and an strange feeling in your belly. Totally unputdownable and addictive, I really hope this isn't the last!

Huge thanks to Netgalley and Storm Publishing for the ARC.

Rating: 4/5 Stars
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The Girls on Floor 13 is the third installment in the Detective Miller series. I absolutely adore Maria and Frankie, they have such a good friendship and their banter is perfection. This time the team ends up at The Parker, a hotel in New York that has a haunting history. I love a good haunted hotel story, and this one was great.
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Phifer has a way of bringing the perfect eerie paranormal element into her stories. There were definitely points where I was creeped out, and I was a huge fan of that. I loved how she was able to connect multiple different ghost stories into one. The Girls on Floor 13 is told in a dual timeline between the 1970’s and the present.
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This has a pretty steady pace throughout. Just as the two previous stories, this is a multi-genre book. It’s a police procedural, murder mystery, paranormal and romance. I love how Phifer adds all of these different elements to this series.
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The ending was great and I’m not sure whether or not Phifer plans for a fourth, though I truly hope she does. The Girls on Floor 13 released yesterday 5/31. Highly recommend this series to all of my paranormal fans! Huge thank you to NetGalley, Helen Phifer and Storm Publishing for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

A good story about finding a murderer but it isn’t just that easy there are other things at play like Ghosts and demonic beings. I like how it ended as well and could see more stories to come with these characters.

There’s always a bit of a risk with reading a book in a series without having read anything else, but I don’t think that unduly affected my experience here. I may have known a little more about the detective duo and their relationship, but enough is revealed to help piece things together.
The story begins in rather macabre fashion. A fire is discovered in a hotel that is renowned for unusual events taking place there. As this is dealt with, there is then the discovery of the bodies of two teenage girls whose feet have been removed.
Our detectives are called in to the scene (though it seems they’re acting out of their jurisdiction) and soon learn that the hotel has a chequered history. Known for numerous suicides and gruesome deaths, there’s also rumours of a woman in blue haunting the area - and if her body is seen, someone will die.
Before we know it, there’s strange dream attacks and exorcisms. It became hard to tell what was happening in what time frame, and exactly how things were unfolding. As long as you don’t like things neatly tied up, this might be the kind of story you’ll enjoy.
Thanks to NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read and review this.

Ghost busting detectives take on a case of double murder and dismemberment of two minor children in an über haunted hotel room on the 13th floor. It requires the reader to leave common sense behind. For example, believing that one ghost of nearly a century cut off her hand with dressmaking shears before committing suicide. Still, the detective team are captivating, with a history of prior supernatural cases that resulted in trauma, yet driven to give the case their complete their investigation. A fun read with lots of action and surprises.

The Girls on Floor 13 is book #3 of Helen Phifer’s Detective Maria Miller series. The series follows Maria's cases that she's assigned as part of the Strange Case Review team for the NYPD. In this installment, the bodies of two teenage girls are discovered in a hotel room on the 13th floor of The Parker Hotel in New York City. Maria and her partner, Frankie, are called to the scene. They discover that an identical double murder has happened in the same hotel room decades before. They investigate to see if they're linked and end up running into some creepy paranormal activity along the way.

I immediately was intrigued from the prologue. Two teen girls in Boston decide to sneak out and take a bus to NY to stay in a haunted hotel? Sign me up! But... as the story progressed, I found myself enjoying it less and less. To be fair, I haven't read the first two books in this series, which maybe would have made me enjoy it more, but I really didn't feel like I needed to read them to be able to understand what was going on at all. This can definitely be read as a standalone and things from the first 2 books are mentioned throughout the book to give some back story.

There were parts of the book that I liked. I liked the creepy story of the hotel's past and the nod to Elisa Lam and the Cecil Hotel. I thought that the killer's MO was really weird, but in a good way!

There were, however, several parts of the book that fell short for me. A lot of the dialogue felt unnecessary, like it was just added as a filler to take up space. Some of the dialogue also surprised me, like I wasn't expecting the character to say what they did. The dialogue between Maria and her boyfriend Harrison was cringy and kind of made me feel like he was giving off serial killer vibes. Covid was also mentioned several times in this book, and for me personally, I do not want Covid mentioned in any of my entertainment!! I'm over it!!! I found myself kind of bored at times. Some of the characters felt unnecessary. The different POVs were a little confusing at times too.

Thank you to NetGalley and Storm Publishing for providing an ARC in exchange for my honest review!

This is a great crime thriller with a supernatural twist.
Detective Maria Miller and her partner Frankie are called to a hotel where two teenagers have been found dead.
Maria gets a bad feeling about the place and when she sees a ghostly figure, she knows it’s a case they need to investigate.
There’s a dark energy at the hotel and soon Maria is having nightmares and becomes very ill. Father Anthony is able to help her, so she asks for his help to rid the hotel of the evil energy.
Things don’t quite go to plan and it’s clear that whatever is causing the deaths, isn’t done yet.
This is a great read.
Thanks to Storm Publishing and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book.