Alessandra Ranelli’s debut novel, Murder at the Hotel Orient, delivers sex, humor, mystery, and intrigue all bottled up like top-shelf champagne about to pop. The flirty fever dream opens the night that two guests are murdered at the Hotel Orient, one of Vienna’s most mystifying attractions. Sterling Lockwood is the alluring and ever-loyal concierge at the Hotel Orient, where technology is banned, and guests must stay under an alias, making it home to some of Vienna’s most illicit affairs.

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