Evil in All Its Disguises: 3 (Lily Moore Mystery)

Anthony Award-winner Hilary Davidson weaves a thrilling story of paranoia vengeance and murder. When travel writer Lily Moore joins a group of journalists for a press junket to Acapulco 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 Cerón 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 isnt the only one who suspects something rotten under the hotels opulent facade. Skye McDermott another journalist on the trip asks Lily for help with an article shes working on about fraud and corruption in the hotel industry. Skye claims shes eager to write a piece of real journalism rather than the fluff shes known for. But she also lets slip that shes deeply upset at a lover who jilted her and she plans to exact her revenge by exposing his companys illegal activities. After Skye disappears suddenly Lily suspects her friend is in grave danger. But the hotels staff insists that everything is fine and refuses to contact the police. Only after Lily tries-and fails-to leave the Hotel Cerón 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 shes still running from and save other lives.