Anthony Award-winner Hilary Davidson weaves a thrilling story of paranoia, vengeance, and murder with Evil in All Its Disguises.
When travel writer Lily Moore joins a group of journalists for an all-expenses-paid press junket to Acapulco, Mexico, she expects sun, sand, and margaritas. Instead, she finds that the Mexican city, once the playground of Hollywood stars, is a place of faded glamour and rising crime. Even the luxurious Hotel CerΓ³n, isolated from the rest of the town, seems disturbing to her, with its grand, empty rooms, ever-watchful staff, and armed guards patrolling the grounds.
Lily isnβt the only one who suspects something rotten under the hotelβs opulent facade. Skye McDermott, another journalist on the trip, asks Lily for help with an article sheβs working on about fraud and corruption in the hotel industry. Skye claims sheβs eager to write a piece of real journalism rather than the fluff sheβs known for. But she also lets slip that sheβs deeply upset at a lover who jilted her, and she plans to exact her revenge by exposing his companyβs illegal activities.
After Skye disappears suddenly, Lily suspects that her friend is in grave danger. But the hotelβs staff insists that everything is fine and refuses to contact the police. Only after Lily triesβand failsβto leave the Hotel CerΓ³n does she discover the truth: the journalists are prisoners in a gilded cage.
Too late, Lily realizes that she has been maneuvered into the role of bait in a vicious, vengeful plot. Faced with unthinkable choices, Lily must summon all her strength to survive, confront the past sheβs still running from, and save other lives.
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