Robert Haze has been around the block when it comes to working in hotels, and not too long ago, he landed himself one heck of a job. He became the manager on duty – or MOD – of one of downtown Chicago’s landmark properties, the world renowned Lanigan Hotel.

In such a role, Robert is charged with juggling any number of tasks, handling every variety of guest issue, and dealing with problems that pop up with regularity around the massive 1800 room property. While Robert is no slouch, he’s about to be thrown a curve ball…a curve ball in the form of murder.

When a Lanigan Hotel guest VIP is found dead soon after he was set to depart – strangled with his own tie and stuffed inside an armoire – Robert’s managerial skills are put to the test. With the arrival of veteran Chicago Police Detective, John Marino, Robert begins to realize that it might take more than just a seasoned detective to solve the case of “The Guest Who Stayed Over.”

Combining the feel of Arthur Hailey’s, Hotel, with a good old-fashioned murder mystery, The MOD Files: The Guest Who Stayed Over provides a sense for what life in a landmark hotel property is really like.

Ever wonder what it’s like to live and work in a huge hotel? Well here’s your chance to find out and solve a murder in the process!

About the Author
Five years ago, K.W. Callahan left his role as a director of finance in the hotel industry to pursue a writing career. Since then, he has written articles for Chicago Parent Magazine, Stressfree Living Magazine, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Parenting, and many more. He has more a decade of experience in the hospitality industry, spending time within a variety of roles that supplied much of the necessary background knowledge to bring realism to the cast of charismatic, not to mention, kooky characters and events set within the fictional Lanigan Hotel.

K.W. has also penned two other novels to this point, Past Dark, a paranormal mystery set within the confines of an abandoned mental institution, and Palos Heights, a horror thriller set in the vast terrain of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and in which four young men are put to the test as they struggle to escape the clutches of a maniacal psychopath.