Detour Hotel

by Aaron Rogge

Suspicious deaths intertwine the lives of a precocious virtual reality architect and a troubled police detective in this tale of justice, forgiveness and truth. Wren is an obsessive young prodigy with more than a few dark secrets. Harper has nothing left to lose after the tragic death of his teenage daughter. Their worlds intersect in both fact and fantasy as they reckon with actions far beyond their control. A supporting cast of oddball junkies, broken lawmen and doomed free spirits all know what to call that particular place in Nashville that doesn't show up on any map... it's the Detour Hotel.

235 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 21, 2018

About the author

Aaron Rogge writes genre-spanning mysteries that often combine dark humor and low fantasy. He is a professional civil engineer whose hobby is writing fiction novels. He is the owner of a dog, husband of a wife, father of a daughter, and a citizen of Nashville, in whichever order is most important at any given minute.

Reviews

[Bill Higgins · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was just north of Albuquerque, headed up to Santa Fe to score some buttons of peyote and turquoise jewelry. My long term plan is to market to western housewives who just want to feel something for once in their lives, but also like that light blue jewelry aesthetic. Anyway, between all the red chilis and the green chilis and the meth, there was a ferocious storm a-brewing in my guts. Now, usually I'm the type of person who will content myself with just reading the nuggets of wisdom scrawled on the cheap metal walls of the gas station bathroom, but this time I went for something different. I found a copy of this book behind the toilet, and even though it was a little moist and some of the pages were dog eared, I'll be goddamned if this wasn't the best behind the public toilet book I've ever read. Just when you thought the main guy was going to go to his hotel, BAM, detour! Oh yeah spoiler alert. This ain't no book for soiboi cucks, this is a man's book. It will punch you right in the taint and keep going until your taint looks like that rabbit hunter dude from pans labyrinth. So protect your taint.

[Brenna Clark · Rating 5 out of 5]

I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway, and I really enjoyed it! I really connected to Wren’s character, and feel like I, as an X-Files fan, connected to the author as well, who slipped in a BUNCH of great references. I have never highlighted anything in a Kindle book before, but I did at least four times in this novel. I don’t think I’ll get the line ‘I am an accumulation of ghosts’ out of my head any time soon. Such a great mystery with diverse and eccentric characters.

[Amanda · Rating 1 out of 5]

I received a copy of this book in a Goodreads giveaway.

It took me about 30 pages to give up on this. Something about it completely turned me off, and I think it was mostly the super dry writing style. I felt like I was reading a textbook or a stranger's journal rather than a novel. I really tried to focus on the plot instead of that, but it didn't work and I gave up because I felt like I was working rather than reading for pleasure. Hard pass.

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

This storyline kept my interest from the first page to the last. Great read