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Strangers Behind Closed Doors

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Strangers Behind Closed Doors

A twisty thriller about a woman who vanishes from a luxury hotel, and the detective who believes the case is tied to the unsolved disappearances of other Black women in the city.

Giovanni Mason worked hard to become the first Black head concierge at Chicago’s exclusive and glamorous Ivory Hotel. It’s a job that requires patience, perfection and, above all, self-control. But when Giovanni reunites with her former best friend, makeup influencer Natalie Moore, things get heated as a mending of fences morphs into a public argument in the hotel restaurant, and Giovanni loses her cool. Hours later, Natalie is missing. Evidence piles against Giovanni --- a ransacked, blood-spattered hotel room, fresh bruises on her body and a troubling gap in her memory from the last 12 hours.

Detective Redding Stark is the only one unconvinced of Giovanni’s guilt. She sees disturbing parallels to a series of disappearances targeting Black women and believes Natalie’s case is part of something bigger. Together, she and Giovanni are pulled into a dangerous web of privilege, power and betrayal inside --- and far beyond --- the walls of the Ivory Hotel.

Will Giovanni and Detective Stark find Natalie or join the missing?

Strangers Behind Closed Doors
by Catherine Adel West

  • Publication Date: June 9, 2026
  • Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Park Row
  • ISBN-10: 0778360067
  • ISBN-13: 9780778360063