The Bellhop Only Stalks Once
by Cat Hickey
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Pub Date Aug 03 2020 | Archive Date Sep 14 2020
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Description
Lies, secrets, and a sinister plot hide in broad daylight at the heart of the Club Pacifica.
A beautiful tropical resort, exciting new friends, and a handsome guest liaison – it’s the perfect getaway for Chloe, a free-spirited Baltimore girl just getting to know herself. But the vacation of a lifetime quickly takes a dark turn when a young, overly flirty bellhop starts following her everywhere. It gets even worse when he disappears, and Chloe is the sole witness.
As bellhop after bellhop goes missing, she struggles to figure out what’s happening. When suspicion falls upon her, Chloe must not only try to rescue the kidnapped bellhops, but also to clear her name.
Complicating things further is the relationship she forms with Mateo, Club Pacifica’s guest liaison. Charming and easygoing, he is everything that her fiancé at home is not, and she finds herself fighting a growing attraction to him. But can he be trusted?
She soon discovers that she’s landed herself in a world of secrets, and, worse, that these are not just those of others, but also the secrets she keeps from herself.
Can Chloe find her way through all the lies to finally discover the truth before it’s too late?
Advance Praise
"A wonderful, fast-paced adventure in Costa Rica, with a cracking set of characters… what could be better? The main character is Chloe, a girl on holiday in a complex, having left her fiancé at home. He doesn’t like holiday, or seemingly anything else that Chloe likes. She meets up with Kaia and Sopie, two like-minded girls, and the holiday progresses until bellhops start to go missing. There’s a little bit of detecting, a little bit of love, a little bit of drugs and a cracking amount of extremely good story-telling. I thoroughly enjoyed the plot, the pace and the people – a thumbs up for all the p’s in this one, and I look forward to the next book by this talented author. A full five stars from me." - Anita Waller, Best Selling Author of the Cat and Mouse series
"Set in Costa Rica, this is an impressive debut, filled with thrills, spills, creepiness and a delicious sprinkling of humour and romance. The setting is so special, beautiful, lush, and warm, yet at the same time, the author uses the landscape to suggest the twisty hidden darkness within this magnificent rainforest location. I loved all the characters, from the cheeky young bellhop Jamie, to Sopie the small, blue-haired yoga teacher, who is great fun, embracing the problem of the missing bellhops by playing the tough, streetwise cop - she is eccentric, and funny, and so beautifully observed. I particularly liked the main protagonist Chloe, a woman who arrives on the island unsure of herself and her future, who becomes stronger, and more independent with every step of her journey. Not only does she set herself the task of finding the missing bellhops, but she also has some personal issues to deal with – and all is wrapped up well at the end, in a satisfying, but brilliantly twisty finale!" - Sue Watson, USA Today Best-Selling author of The Sister In Law
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