As Xavier Darling tells his general manager, Lizbet Keaton, their goal will be to get five out of five keys from Shelly Carpenter, an undercover hotel blogger who has not awarded top honors to any spot visited so far. Grace’s lonely days are over when the historic property is purchased and reopened by a London billionaire. Our ghost is Grace Hadley, a teenage chambermaid who died under suspicious circumstances in a hotel fire in 1922. The beloved beach novelist’s 28th book is another tour de force, deploying all her usual tricks and tropes and clever points of view, again among them a character from the afterlife and the collective “we” of gossipy island residents. Bring on the fresh-baked gougères and the hydrangea-blue cashmere throws: A classic fictional setting-the grand hotel-gets the Hilderbrand treatment.
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