February 1929. The Regent Hotel in Birmingham is a place of deception and glamour. Behind
its six-storeyed façade guests sip absinthe cocktails on velvet banquettes while the staff
navigate the hotel's labyrinthine ?below stairs' to ensure the finest service is always at
hand. In the early evening psychoanalyst Nora Dickinson checks in under a false name. It's
unlike Nora to deceive - her aversion to lying borders on the pathological - but she's
travelling with an agenda. Having shadowed the famous opera singer Berenice Oxbow from Zurich
she's determined not to lose sight of her now. But when a terrible snow storm isolates the
hotel - and its guests - from the outside world reality appears to shift. Nora's grip loosens
and the nightmares she's worked hard to control begin to bare their teeth. Kate Mascarenhas's
latest novel offers her readers a horrifying ride through murder madness and the darkest
recesses of the mind. 'A delicious piece of art deco Gothic' Natalie Marlow ?Dark complex and
beautifully plotted' Rebecca Netley ?Immersive unique... with a dark supernatural core' Essie
Fox ?An atmospheric claustrophobic novel... mesmerising' Elizabeth Lee
