
The Stranger in Room Nine
A Suspense NovelBy Lena NorthmereLength5h 5m
About this audiobook
What if the one room locked for seventeen years suddenly opened—and the man inside carried a message from someone who vanished without a trace?
Claire Doran has spent years guarding the darkest secret of the Larkspur Hotel. Room Nine has remained sealed since October 14, 2009, the night Simon Vale disappeared. The locks were changed. The keys were secured. No guest was allowed inside.
Until now.
At 1:17 in the morning, during a storm that has cut the hotel off from the outside world, Claire sees light beneath Room Nine’s door. Inside is Noah Vale, a stranger carrying an old brass key that should no longer exist.
Then he tells her something impossible.
Simon Vale was his father.
And Simon died three weeks ago.
In Noah’s hand is a sealed envelope addressed to Claire in Simon’s unmistakable handwriting. Before she can demand answers, glass shatters downstairs, the hotel goes dark, and someone begins moving through the building.
Now Claire must face questions she has avoided for seventeen years:
• How did Noah enter a room no one could open?
• Why did Simon leave Claire a message after nearly two decades of silence?
• What really happened on the night he disappeared?
• Who else in the hotel knows the truth?
• Why is someone willing to kill to keep Room Nine’s secret buried?
Trapped by freezing rain with stranded guests and a past that refuses to stay silent, Claire realizes the danger is not outside the hotel.
It is already inside.
The Stranger in Room Nine is a suspense novel filled with buried secrets, family deception, an isolated hotel, and mounting danger at every turn.
If you enjoy locked-room tension, chilling family secrets, atmospheric mysteries, and shifting suspicion, add The Stranger in Room Nine to your reading list today.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, General Fiction
Length5 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 7, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
2Chapter 1: The Man With Simon’s Eyes
3Chapter 2: Ninety-Eight Thousand
4Chapter 3: Eddie’s Story
5Chapter 4: Box 473
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6Chapter 5: Richard’s Price
7Chapter 6: The Photograph Simon Carried
8Chapter 7: The Morning After
9Chapter 8: The Civil Cases
10Chapter 9: Richard’s Last Winter
11Chapter 10: The Last Unopened Envelope
12Chapter 11: Mara’s Body Camera Policy
13Chapter 12: The Guest Who Stole a Towel
14Chapter 13: The Last Court Notice
15Chapter 14: The Call She Does Not Answer
16Chapter 15: The Hotel’s Seventy-Fifth Anniversary
17Chapter 16: The Last Questions
18Chapter 17: The Morning Register Continues
19Epilogue: Room Nine, Open
20About the Author
21A Note to Readers