Published: June 04, 2012
Words: 54,136 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780983861232

Short description

An imaginary island. A gracefully decaying hotel. A renegade saint. Hospitality was never like this...

Extended description

Welcome to the Hotel Noir, peerless gem of hospitality and sole holder of a Michelin star on the island of St. Germaine.
When the controversial American author Francis Stein is stabbed to death in the hotel’s environs, the search for his murderer takes islander Bat Manley north to the other half of Stein’s double life, south to St. Germaine’s vice-ridden slums, and finally into the realm of the psyche, where the blind see and the dead speak.
A kaleidoscopic striptease of the human soul, Hotel Noir will make you sweat.

"A noirish combination of F. Scott Fitzgerald and early P. D. James on steroids, as told by a narrator who knows how to weave a web and pull you in without your realizing that you are caught... an intriguing literary crime novel filled with wonderfully zany characters Agatha Christie would have killed for." NY Journal of Books

“I’m thoroughly intrigued by this novel, though not necessarily for straightforward reasons. I think what has hooked me is.. (Read more) Welcome to the Hotel Noir, peerless gem of hospitality and sole holder of a Michelin star on the island of St. Germaine.
When the controversial American author Francis Stein is stabbed to death in the hotel’s environs, the search for his murderer takes islander Bat Manley north to the other half of Stein’s double life, south to St. Germaine’s vice-ridden slums, and finally into the realm of the psyche, where the blind see and the dead speak.
A kaleidoscopic striptease of the human soul, Hotel Noir will make you sweat.

"A noirish combination of F. Scott Fitzgerald and early P. D. James on steroids, as told by a narrator who knows how to weave a web and pull you in without your realizing that you are caught... an intriguing literary crime novel filled with wonderfully zany characters Agatha Christie would have killed for." NY Journal of Books

“I’m thoroughly intrigued by this novel, though not necessarily for straightforward reasons. I think what has hooked me is that it doesn’t seem like anything else. Casper Silk has a wholly unique voice. It’s an entirely bizarre one, too, and Hotel Noir is a dark yet evocative portrait of an island quickly changing, a hotel of another era, and a man caught in the midst.”
Lexy Bloom
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Tags

thriller, love, mystery, addiction, paranormal, cult, dreams, redemption

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Review by: Australwind on Sep. 14, 2012 :
Hotel Noir is most certainly a tale of sadness, loss, friendship and suspicion, murder and mystery. The languid heat, the jaded locals and fading glory of the old favorite hotel all combine to cloud the perspective of the reader as to how it is that our 'hero' Francis (an American author whose profile is apparently also somewhat jaded) fits in this strange landscape.

There was certainly more happening than met the eye - the little snippets of information that were left about the place like discarded glasses in the bar teased at the reader, imploring them to go on further into the morass that was this man's private life.

Intrigued to the end....
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: discerning on Aug. 28, 2012 :
A suspenseful literary novel that is refreshingly different and entirely engrossing. A stunner, start to finish!
(reviewed the day of purchase)

Review by: Chris Galle on Aug. 20, 2012 :
Hotel Noir. The only decent hotel on a small Caribbean island. The place is definitely in decay, but that hasn’t stopped Francis Stein, a controversial American author, from wintering there for twenty-five consecutive years. He seems to have settled in, also with the locals. He’s different from other tourists, he has what they call ‘an islander’s soul’. Why then is this man found stabbed to death on New Year’s Eve? Who did dit? Maybe “simply the natives’ way of controlling the tourist population. An occasional knifing tends to scare people off for a season or two.” Or is there more to it?
Intriguing questions that make this novel certainly a good read. The portrait of Francis as a man with a moral mission was as convincing as the evocation of the atmosphere of this tiny island with its ambivalent attitude towards tourists. I particularly liked the way how each chapter added another piece to the puzzle. Maybe I missed some humour, but what else can one expect in a novel with this title? Fans of the ‘noir’ genre will love this.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

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