The Paradox Hotel, Rob Hart
The Paradox Hotel, Rob Hart
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The Paradox Hotel

Author: Rob Hart

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged: 11 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/22/2022


Synopsis

“Time travel, murder, corruption, restless baby dinosaurs, and a snarky robot named Ruby collide in this excellent, noir-inflected, humor-infused, science-fiction thriller.”—The Boston Globe

An impossible crime. A detective on the edge of madness. The future of time travel at stake. From the author of The Warehouse and the Assassins Anonymous series . . .

FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, Kirkus Reviews

January Cole’s job just got a whole lot harder.

Not that running security at the Paradox was ever really easy. Nothing’s simple at a hotel where the ultra-wealthy tourists arrive costumed for a dozen different time periods, all eagerly waiting to catch their “flights” to the past.

Or where proximity to the timeport makes the clocks run backward on occasion—and, rumor has it, allows ghosts to stroll the halls.

None of that compares to the corpse in room 526. The one that seems to be both there and not there. The one that somehow only January can see.

On top of that, some very important new guests have just checked in. Because the U.S. government is about to privatize time-travel technology—and the world’s most powerful people are on hand to stake their claims.

January is sure the timing isn’t a coincidence. Neither are those “accidents” that start stalking their bidders.

There’s a reason January can glimpse what others can’t. A reason why she’s the only one who can catch a killer who’s operating invisibly and in plain sight, all at once.

But her ability is also destroying her grip on reality—and as her past, present, and future collide, she finds herself confronting not just the hotel’s dark secrets but her own.

At once a dazzlingly time-twisting murder mystery and a story about grief, memory, and what it means to—literally—come face-to-face with our ghosts, The Paradox Hotel is another unforgettable speculative thrill ride from acclaimed author Rob Hart.

About Rob Hart

Rob Hart is the author of four acclaimed previous Ash McKenna novels: NEW YORKED, CITY OF ROSE, SOUTH VILLAGE, and THE WOMAN FROM PRAGUE. His short stories have appeared in publications like Shotgun Honey, Thuglit, Needle, Helix Literary Magazine, and Joyland. He has received both a Derringer Award nomination and honorable mention in The Best American Mystery Stories 2015. His non-fiction articles have been featured at LitReactor, Salon, The Daily Beast, The Good Men Project, Birth.Movies.Death., the Powell's bookstore blog, and Nailed. He lives in New York City. Find him online at @robwhart and www.robwhart.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on April 20, 2022

My last reviews of 2021 is coming up! I’m still heartbroken that we lost Betty White as I’m writing this review! I thank her for being our friend! And here comes my review: Westworld meets Fantasy Island with Jurassic Park vibes could be definitely proper cure for mediocre sci-if fan for me! Think ab......more

Goodreads review by Holly on October 15, 2021

Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Time Travel/Mystery I loved the premise of a hotel for the uber rich who are preparing to take flights into the past. Welcome to the Paradox Hotel - The hotel is going private because it is costing more than it is earning. Trillionares are preparing to bid. Visiting the past through Tim......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on December 27, 2021

I received a free advance copy of this from NetGalley for review. Not that long ago, if I read a story in which time travel was possible but instead of it being strictly regulated and only utilized for things like historical research that it was used just for tourism for rich assholes, I’d have said......more

Goodreads review by LIsa Noell "Rocking the chutzpah!" on April 14, 2024

My thanks to Random House/Ballantine. Rob Hart and Netgalley. I just flat out loved this damn story. It's going to do science things.😕 I'm cool with science, until I'm not! Then I just go with it. This? I went with. Fact is that I loved the entire story line. Best thing about that is that real scien......more


Quotes

“Smashes together some of the best elements of science fiction and crime to deliver a story in which time is broken . . . As funny and entertaining as it is dark and complex. [A] wildly entertaining combination, along with Hart’s relentless pacing, make this a rare hybrid that has something for everyone.”—NPR

“Entrancing in its pull right from the start . . .  Science fiction mixed with the aching pangs of loss and romance will pull the reader towards January Cole’s side and bring them along for a thrill ride.”San Francisco Book Review

“[A] tale of death and destruction down the timelanes . . . [Hart advances] his detective-pursuing-a-master-criminal plot neatly and suspensefully and satisfyingly, moving from one new surprising clue to another.”Locus

“Electric . . . a tense, taut cinematic kick to the teeth.”—Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers

“Wildly inventive and endlessly entertaining . . . the time-twisting, sci-fi, noir-tinged mystery with heart I never knew I needed in my life.”—Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Survive the Night

“A tricky and trippy mystery that keeps the reader guessing and thinking well past the very last page.”—Wesley Chu, New York Times bestselling co-author of The Red Scrolls of Magic

“Wonderfully twisty, smart, and funny and, ultimately, heartbreaking . . . Hart continues to flex his muscles as one of crime’s best world builders.”—Rachel Howzell Hall, New York Times bestselling author of These Toxic Things

“The perfect intersection of noir mystery, brilliant sci-fi, and haunted-house chills.”—Peter Clines, New York Times bestselling author of The Fold

“Not only a razor-sharp time-travel mystery but a moving story of love, memory, and coming to terms with loss . . . It’s also hilarious and as suspenseful as hell.”—Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award–winning author of the UNSUB series

“Twisty, twisted, relentlessly entertaining, and like all Hart’s work, layered with larger ideas . . . You don’t read it so much as devour it.”—Marcus Sakey, internationally bestselling author of the Brilliance series

“Stellar. The twists keep coming . . . in this impressive melding of creative plotting and three-dimensional characters. Hart remains a writer to watch.”Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Hart delivers a riveting read likely to win him scores of new fans. Funny, thrilling, poignant, and profound.”Kirkus Reviews

“Jam-packed and extremely fun . . . This is a novel of suspense, thrills, terrific science fiction, and ideas—big ideas—but it also has a sense of humor and a soft heart.”—BookReporter

“This wildly ambitious, well-executed genre-bender is suspenseful, clever, and funny.”Booklist