The Dawclark Hotel: Murder on the third floor

When a hotel guest is murdered and their mother confesses, six estranged siblings are forced to save their failing family hotel, uncover deadly secrets, and confront their own fractured lives—before bankruptcy, betrayal, and scandal destroy them all.

6 Siblings. 1 Failing Hotel. And a battle for power.
Meet the Dawclark Family

Lucy, a twenty-seven-year old princess who is more interested in shopping, drinking and sleeping until noon, than working in her family’s hotel.

Callum, a twenty-six year old work obsessed bore. All he does is shout at the staff, argue with customers and then wonder why the hotel only has two months worth of cash flow left before they face bankruptcy.

Elsie, a twenty year old lawyer in training and the only one of her family in a relationship, even if it is toxic. When she arrives back from her holiday engaged, things with her new fiancé go from bad to worse.

Joseph, a twenty-one year old superstar football player who earns far more than he can spend, even if he spends all his time benched and pining for the love of his life, high school sweetheart, Phoebe.

Hannah, a twenty-two year old who has dreamt of running the hotel since she was a little girl. From sixteen she worked reception at the family’s hotel hoping they would see her potential and promote her, but her brother has other ideas.

Stanley, a nineteen year old self-confessed baby of the family. Adored by his mother, a boy who can literally do nothing wrong. All he wants is someone to be interested in him, but it’s hard to compete when your older brother is a literal footballing superstar.

Follow the lives of the six Dawclark siblings as they explore relationships, power struggles, business problems, and what success looks like in this contemporary slice-of-life fiction novel featuring a family business that's been in the Dawclark family for generations.