Winter at Death’s Hotel

“Part historical fiction, part psychological thriller, Cameron’s work is all page-turner.”-Library Journal, STARRED Review

Sherlock has nothing on this woman – in 1890s New York, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s wife hunts down a serial killer…

New York, January 1896. Arthur Conan Doyle, the renowned created of Sherlock Holmes, arrives with his wife Louisa at the Britannic Hotel in New York for his first American tour. While Arthur prepares his lectures, Louisa becomes entranced by the vibrant, dangerous metropolis brimming with debauchery and iniquity around every corner. When a woman’s mutilated corpse turns up in a Bowery alley, Louisa recognizes the victim as someone she’s seen in the hotel. Obsessed with the woman’s gruesome death, Louisa starts piecing together clues to reveal a story of murder and depravity—a story that leads back to the hotel itself and a madman who is watching her every move.

From Fifth Avenue’s glitzy opulence to the smoky boy’s club of the New York Express and the Tombs of Lower Manhattan, Winter at Death’s Hotel is an electrifying tale of a society caught in the throes of a story transformation and one woman determined to redeem it at whatever cost.

Praise for Winter at Death’s Hotel

“Louisa is a fascinating creation…Conan Doyle’s wife is a clever choice as the novel’s central character, embodying the fears and aspirations of women of the period, and the ingenious plot does not diminish the horrors she has to confront.”
—Sunday Times (UK)

“A well-realized mystery that shows promise for future books in the series.”
—Sunday Business Post (UK)

“Sherlock Holmes, make way: Louisa Conan Doyle is on the case! The superstar sleuth of this gripping new historical thriller by the author of the “Denton Mysteries” (The Frightened Man; The Bohemian Girl) is not the legendary detective but his creator’s devoted wife…Part historical fiction, part psychological thriller, Cameron’s work is all page-turner. However, it is Louisa-both archetypal Victorian woman and unique personality-who is the real driving force.”
– Library Journal – STARRED Review

“Gripping tale of mass mayhem…the action builds to an enigmatic and harrowing resolution. ”
– Publishers Weekly

“In a refreshing shift from most stories set in this period, women are the strong, smart heroes…Complex characters with their illicit liaisons and a psychopath’s bloody trail, plus the shocking denouement, create the requisite dark tension, similar to that of Alex Grecian’s The Black Country and the creative horror of Preston and Child’s Pendergast series.”
– Booklist

“Cameron has crafted a richly detailed New York packed with historical figures, queer characters, corrupt cops, upstairs-downstairs tensions, ambitious journalists, and more. In the end, the novel is surprisingly affecting-I was actually pretty messed up by the fate of one character, and that almost never happens to me-and the writing is quite lovely.”
– Book Riot

“A grisly suspenseful, sometimes disturbing thriller that pits amateur detective Louisa Conan Doyle (yup, she’s Arthur’s wife) against a mad, bad, serial killer…Kenneth Cameron weaves a tale of mayhem and murder amidst the daily comings and goings of the hotel’s clients and does it wonderfully well.”
– Midwest Book Review

“Gripping tale of mass mayhem…The action builds to an enigmatic and harrowing resolution.”
– Publishers Weekly

“Set in the up-market Britannic Hotel, author Kenneth Cameron weaves a tale of mayhem and murder amidst the daily comings and goings of the hotel’s clients and does it wonderfully well. Teddy Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Conan Doyle, NYPD officers and characters that call the sidewalks of New York home are portrayed with vivid imagery, the plot, intricate and at times, seriously scary. ”
– BookPleasures

“Kenneth Cameron keeps the plot moving along, and is talented enough writer to create a world where what a proper English married lady sees and experiences is overwhelming and utterly believable. ”
– The New York Journal of Books

“An enjoyable, change-of-pace mystery with a marvelous, entertaining, and determined main character. ”
– Silver’s Reviews

“I think a lot of my enjoyment of this novel came from Cameron’s writing style. It was so fluid and beautiful that even if this book had been six hundred pages, I wouldn’t have cared or complained and I probably wouldn’t have even realized it. ”
– Charming Chelsey’s