Off Season

by Amber Cowie

Genres: Domestic Thrillers; Psychological Thrillers

Synopsis

For fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware, a destination thriller about a woman who accompanies her new husband to a remote hotel during the off season to do renovations—and uncovers deadly secrets behind every door, from the author of the “endlessly entertaining and fiendishly clever” (Christina McDonald, USA TODAY bestselling author) thriller Last One Alive.

The Venatura Hotel desperately needs a facelift. Too bad renovations are murder on a marriage.

While recovering from a professional setback, documentary filmmaker Jane Duvall stays at a remote hotel during the off season with her new contractor husband, Dom, and his daughter, Sienna. Surrounded by an immense forest and the mighty Fraser River, Jane wants nothing more than to bond with her new family. But she’s unsettled by the cold, quiet presence of the hotel’s owner, Peter, who is overseeing Dom’s renovations. When she starts asking questions, Dom grows distant and Sienna becomes belligerent. Undeterred, Jane uncovers secrets that make her question exactly who she married, including a series of strange disappearances at the hotel in previous seasons. When a rainstorm of epic proportions threatens to flood the banks of the river and claim the Venatura Hotel, Jane must solve these mysteries if she’s to survive the off season.

Release date: May 14, 2024

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Print pages: 352

Sample

Thriller; Psychological; family life; betrayal; British Columbia; Fraser River, psychological thriller; Lucy Foley; The Unwanted Guest; Shari Lapena; Ruth Ware; Turn of the Key; deception; Rebecca; Daphne Du Maurier; The Shining; Stephen King; missing teens; paranoia; search and rescue; parenting; eating disorders; bullying; psychological fiction; renovations; teenagers; violent children; social media; pranks; flawed characters; unreliable narrators; mystery; YouTube; The Guest List; revenge; tension; widower, creepy hotel; The Overlook; Pacific Northwest; beach read; summer read; book club