The Pink Hotel

Lily is dead. Lily's daughter (I can find no other name for her) knows little about her mother. She sneaks into the pink hotel her mother ran for her mother's wake. Impulsively, she steals her mother's red suitcase. And thus begins the adventure, the noir mystery that is this book.


Mystery is a solid one-word summary of this story. Lily's daughter doesn't know much about her mother. Lily's daughter's dad doesn't know much about Lily's daughter. Lily's daughter doesn't know much about herself. She wanders around the pink hotel and the other places important to her mother and gets to know a little about the mother she never knew and the people her mother loved and even a little about herself.

I liked this book very much.