Upstairs at the Beresford

By: Will Carver

Narrated by: Ciaran Saward

Danielle Ortega works nights, singing at whatever dive bar will offer her a gig. She gets by, keeping to herself. Sam Walker gambles and drinks and can't keep his hands to himself. Now he's tied up in a shoe closet with a dent in his head that matches Danielle's broken ashtray.

The man in 731 has been dead for two days and his dog has not stopped barking. Two doors down, the couple who always smokes on the window ledge will mysteriously fall.

Upstairs, in the penthouse, Mr Balliol sees it all. He can peer into every crevice of every floor of the hotel from his screen-filled suite. He witnesses humanity and inhumanity in all its forms – loneliness, passion and desperation in equal measure. All the ingredients he needs to make a deal.

When Danielle returns home one night to find Sam gone, a series of sinister events begin to unfold. But strange things often occur at Hotel Beresford, and many are only a distraction to hide something much, much darker...

©2023 Will Carver (P)2024 Bolinda Publishing

A good prequel.

I quite liked "The Beresford" and I enjoyed this as well. In my mind it slightly undermined a couple of the perception I had of the first book. Not nearly enough to rake away from the story as a whole. I think I'd like to see some more stories from the Beresford. Narration was good for the story too.