The Girls on Floor 13 – ARC Book Review

A light flickers in the silent room. Side by side in twin beds, the girls could be sleeping, except their pale skin is ice cold, and their closed eyes will never open again…

When the bodies of two teenage girls are discovered in a rundown New York City hotel room, Detective Maria Miller is called to the crime scene. The best friends were supposed to be at a sleepover miles away in the suburbs. With no record of the girls checking in and the room on the thirteenth floor closed off to guests, what were they doing there?

Sinister messages on their phones suggest the girls were lured to the hotel, using its reputation for hauntings as bait. The killer left no DNA behind and Maria’s efforts to trace their identity leads to a dead end. But Maria feels certain the murderer works at the hotel. How else did they access the room and know it was empty?

While Maria races to interview staff before another body turns up, the hotel manager shares an old newspaper article about an identical double murder decades before. Could the cases be linked? After a key suspect is found dead in his home, a discovery in the hotel room sends shivers down Maria’s spine. Can she uncover the secrets of the room on the thirteenth floor before she becomes its next victim?

Perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter, Mary Stone and A. J. Rivers, The Girls on Floor 13 will have you racing through the pages and sleeping with the lights on.

The Girls on Floor 13 is a Ghost Thriller about a haunted room in a reputed hotel in New York where the girls were lured into the room and their feet were cut off making them die.

This is the third book of the Detective Maria Miller series although this is the first time I have been reading from the series. Maria and her partner Frankie are called to the scene at the Parker Hotel when the bodies of two teenage girls are found in a haunted room and their feet missing. Maria Miller start investigating the case while investigating the paranormal effects that the room may have caused the perpetrator causing them to cut off the victims’ feet.

I do like the horror element in the thriller book. Kind of like Riley Sager and Ruth Ware. I also liked the creepy sense that I got from reading this book, when reading about the horror side of the story. Not only that, this book is not very long and so frankly, you could easily finish this book off quickly. However, despite the fact that I liked the plot and the creepy element as a background, I didn’t really like the dialogue between the characters much. Also, since I haven’t read the first two books, much of Maria’s private life was revealed and so I was slightly a bit clueless about what is going on.

However overall, this is an enjoyable thriller and worth 3 stars.

Many thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC. The review is based on my honest opinion only.