THE WOMAN IN ROOM NINE: A Locked-Room Psychological Thriller

A LOCKED HOTEL ROOM. A MISSING GUEST. >Forensic image analyst Evelyn Ward receives an anonymous instant photograph of bestselling thriller writer Lydia Voss. There is only one problem: Lydia has been dead for three days. Evelyn knows photographs can lie. This one does not. Every reflection is right. Every shadow is consistent. And Lydia is standing beside a wooden hotel door marked 9. The trail leads Evelyn to Greyhaven Hotel, a remote Victorian landmark perched above the North Sea. Reception insists there is no Room Nine. The first floor goes directly from Room Eight to Room Ten. But the walls tell a different story. Greyhaven once hid an observation room. Evelyn's dead mother knew about it. So did two identical sisters, a vanished hotel guest, and the people behind a psychological experiment that treated memory as something that could be rewritten. As Evelyn uncovers photographs, recordings and testimony that should have remained buried, one question becomes increasingly dangerous: If the woman in the photograph is alive, who was buried in her place? THE WOMAN IN ROOM NINE is an atmospheric locked-room psychological thriller about memory, identity, manipulated evidence and the stories powerful people build around the truth.