New Orleans has always been a city of saints and sinners—some are pious, but many more come to party. At the heart of the city is its famed French Quarter, built around St. Louis Catholic Cathedral, visited by tourists and parishioners by day—and gutter punks, hustlers and tarot card readers by night. But when someone gets murdered in a nice French Quarter hotel in this tourist town, everyone takes notice. When police have no viable suspects in this bloodbath, they turn to the city’s darker elements for answers.

London’s busy Heathrow Airport is an international hub, and the posh Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel nearby is the perfect spot to spend the night for wealthy travelers. It’s also the perfect place for foreigners to find work until the deadly riots hit the city of London and its surrounding areas, leaving five dead. While the authorities try to restore the calm, three hotel employees go missing. Investigators soon learn there was an all-night party on the hotel grounds, mixing drugs, alcohol and some sexual exploits. Could the bedlam in London have something to do with the disappearances—or was it something more sinister?

The chic private club of the Soho House Hotel in New York City—an exclusive place to be for those in the film, fashion or television industry—was the scene for a rising swimwear designer and her trust fund boyfriend to network and get a good night’s rest. But for one of them, it will be their last. This was the classic mystery case of love gone so terribly wrong.