The Hitchcock Hotel - Stephanie Wrobel

Thriller

Rating: 7/10

Alfred Smettle is not your average Hitchcock fan. He is the owner of the Hitchcock Hotel, a striking and rather creepy place dedicated to the Master of Suspense. Where every room has been transformed with memorabilia and guests are offered round the clock screenings of Hitchcock’s films.

Can I get a reservation please?

To celebrate the hotel’s first anniversary, Alfred has invited the members of his college film club for a reunion. He has meticulously planned every detail and spared no expense. Nothing but the best for his former best friends.

Shocker (read in sarcastic tone), one of them turns up dead. As the police start interviewing the guests and staff, the reader gets their first taste of the secrets each has been keeping. And the lies they have been telling. To the host, to each other, and yes, to the police. It’s a maelstrom of deceit and wickedness. The good stuff!

The author layers in many of the motifs that Hitchcock films were famous for; a fan will delight in this! Since we are talking about him, I felt it only fair to provide a list of his best films.

“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.” Alfred Hitchcock.

Hitchcock Films – Top 20…there are over 50!

Notorious (1946) > Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman

Rear Window (1954) > Jimmy Stewart & Grace Kelly

Strangers On A Train (1951) > Farley Granger & Robert Walker

Psycho (1960) > Anthony Perkins & Janet Leigh)

Vertigo (1958) > Jimmy Stewart & Kim Novak

Rope (1948) > John Dall & Farley Granger

North By Northwest (1959) > Cary Grant & Eva Marie Saint

To Catch A Thief > Cary Grant & Grace Kelly

Dial M. For Murder (1954) > Grace Kelly & Ray Milland

Suspicion (1941) > Joan Fontaine & Cary Grant

Rebecca (1940) > Laurence Olivier & Joan Fontaine

The Birds (1963) > Tippi Hedren & Rod Taylor

Marnie (1964) > Tippi Hedren & Sean Connery

Shadow Of A Doubt (1943) > Joesph Cotton & Teresa Wright

The 39 Steps (1935) > Robert Donat & Madeline Carroll

The Lady Vanishes (1938) > Margaret Lockwood & May Whitty

Torn Curtain (1966) > Paul Newman & Julie Andrews

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1966) > Jimmy Stewart & Doris Day

Notorious (1946) > Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman

Family Plot (1976) > Bruce Dern & Karen Black

Book Pairing(s): Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel, The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudendorf, The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse