After two whole years living and working at the Anniversary Hotel, Lindsey Peters knows she can pretty much handle anything. So when Manager Keefe hires the hotel's newest entertainment resident-- a brilliant young magician just Lindsey's age-- Lindsey figures maybe its time for her to focus less on making others happy and more on her own happiness.
But the Anniversary continues its reputation as a magnet for disaster when one after the other, the hotel administrators are turning up dead. As the staff numbers dwindle and Lindsey inadvertently finds herself climbing the ladder to general manager, she's forced to face off against the Anniversary's twelve cranky owners, a mysterious killer bent on shutting down the hotel for good, a ballroom full of supersized insects, and a deadly hurricane.
It's a good thing Lindsey just met a magician, because now all she wants to do is disappear...
Ms. Anniversary II: Masterpieces Missing (2022)
One year after the inaugeral Ms. Anniversary pageant in 2020, Lindsey-Anne Peters is prepared to give up her crown to the next lucky young lady. But due to a scheduling error, it seems that there are two pageants going on in the Anniversary Hotel at the exact same time... and some of the Royalty of Cryptesia contestants aren't exactly friendly.
When horrible accidents start to happen to the Ms. Anniversary contestants, it's easy to blame the contestants of the rival pageant or a wacky artist at the upstairs art show. But Lindsey suspects that there may be someone infinitely more dangerous lurking at the Anniversary Hotel...
Ms. Anniversary (2021)
Faced with a myriad of financial and public relations problems, Cryptesia's famed Anniversary Hotel has come up with a brilliant solution: the Ms. Anniversary pageant. Lindsey Peters, a Ms. Anniversary contestant, wants the crown and the job. So do seventeen other women. But from the start, it's obvious that this pageant has more problems than any event ever set at the Anniversary. Add a couple of murders, a notorious lawyer who's been missing for quite a while, and a couple of sketchy hotel employees, and the Ms. Anniversary pageant is no longer simply a beauty pageant gone wrong-- it's downright dangerous!
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The Execution Room (2021)
Vera Valdman certainly has her hands full: not only are children disappearing throughout Cryptesia-- seemingly being kidnapped-- but her boss is basically forcing her to research the deaths of Cary’s parents so that he has something interesting to print in the paper. Vera just wants to do whatever makes Cary happy. With the help of a mysterious American retiree who spies on the government in his spare time, a cult of young women worshipping the moon, and of course her brother, Vera is actually close to solving both of these hot cases. But then again, this is Cryptesia, and the bad guys don't just disappear into the night quietly when the party's over. Luckily, the government has one last trick up their sleeve that may just help close the books on these two cases forever...
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The Mafia Game (2020)
Six years after the events of The Skeletons Strangler, Vera Valdman and Cary Solomon are having some problems in their marriage. When their marriage counselor recommends a relationship retreat hosted by a well-known adventurer, Vera reluctantly has to put aside her attempts to catch a couple of bank robbers and nab an escaped convict in order to work on her personal life, but tries to maintain a positive attitude, for Cary's sake. Retreats can be fun, right?Wrong. What starts out as a fun parlor game at the start of the evening quickly turns very dangerous after Vera not only discovers that their host may be a crazed gunman, but that one of the other retreat members may be one of the worst mass killers that Cryptesia has ever produced. What was once a matter of working together to play a fun game is now a matter of pure survival...can Vera and Cary both survive a night alone at the Fortieth Street School, save their marriage, and live to tell the tale?
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And the Hallways Ran Red (2018)
Haley Haledjian leads a miserable existence. Made a widow before she even took her wedding vows, she's abandoned all hopes of romance and has dedicated her life to taking care of the neglected inmates of the Cryptese prison system. Enter Daniel Lowes. The brave American once had a promising career as a firefighter, but an injury and a subsequent painkiller addiction changed all that. Sentenced to fifteen months in Haledjian's prison for opiate possession, he's heard all of the rumors concerning prisons in his adopted home country, and just wants to make it out unscathed. What Lowes forgot to tell the authorities was that he knows Haledjian personally; in fact, they used to be very close. Now, he's vowed to fight for her life as well as his own as they battle Lowes' fellow inmates for control of the North Cryptesia Penitentiary. The riot is on, the hostages are many...and the chance that both Lowes and Haledjian will make it out alive grows dimmer by the minute.
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The Skeletons Strangler (2019)
Scott and Vera Valdman are meeting their birth father for the first time in twenty-two years. It's perfect timing, because this sibling team-- one a journalist, the other a police profiler-- needs all the help they can get to catch the Skeletons Strangler, an unknown assailant who's been raping and killing young Cryptese women since 1970.Who is the Skeletons Strangler? Is it Mr. McKean, the Valdmans' neighbor, who Vera swears is up to no good? Is it Dr. Hinckley, who admitted to raping Vera's best friend's mother several years ago? Or is it someone even closer to the two siblings?The answer will shock Vera Valdman to her core...and force her to take a good, hard look at whom in her life she can trust, who she can't, and what she will need to control her own life and career in the face of chaos.
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