Blue Hotel

1:14 AM, 19 September 2022

Book Title: Blue Hotel

Author Name: Chad Taylor

Publisher: Brio Books

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ISBN: 9781761280269

Blurb: In 1987, leather-clad tourist Blanca Nul goes missing in New Zealand at the height of summer. A year to the day after Blanca was reported missing, she is mysteriously sighted a second time.

Local reporter Ray Moody gets a scoop that both women can be traced back to a place called the Blue Hotel. Ray sees a chance to revisit the missing person story and revive his career.

There is, however, a problem: since Eva, Ray’s young artist wife, left him he’s bumped up his drinking – a lot. In his dogged pursuit for the truth and redemption, Ray learns how desperate, damaged and lonely people from all walks of life can be, and he will be reminded that truth is always hard-won and painful. 

“Whip-smart, relentless and lean, this perfectly executed noir has the wisecracks of Runyon, the twists of Wayne Macauley and the pitiless humanism of Temple. I doubt contemporary fiction has produced a more inventive, dogged and smashed-up investigator than Ray Moody — |a man who can talk his way past any bouncer in the land, only to get beaten to a pulp once inside.” Jock Serong

Publicity details for the title: Chad Taylor lives in New Zealand, though he was based in Paris from 2008 to 2014. He has written six other novels – Pack of Lies, Heaven (made into a feature film by Miramax) Shirker, Electric, Departure Lounge and The Church of John Coltrane – as well as written for the screen. In 2001 he was awarded a Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship for Literature, and in 2003 he was the Auckland University Literary Fellow.

RRP: $35.99

Format: Paperback

Size: large novel format

Audience age range: 18+

Publication Date: 23/08/22

Distributor in New Zealand: BPS (Booktopia)