Lazarus Hotel (Worldwide Mystery)

Jo Bannister writes an excellent series about cops in the fictional British city of Castlemere (A Bleeding of Innocents, No Birds Sing, and A Taste for Burning are also available). In The Lazarus Hotel she switches gears to come up with a classic mystery in the "isolated country house" category--only this time the remote setting is the penthouse of a high-rise building still under construction in the middle of London. Trapped by power cuts, elevator failures, and other suspicious accidents are six subjects of a psychiatric workshop designed to help them refocus their lives after recent tragedies. When all six turn out to be connected to a young model who committed suicide, it's obvious that there's more going on than a self-help seminar--and Bannister squeezes every drop of excitement and terror out of the situation.