The Devil Hath a Pleasing Shape

2025 Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award nominee for the North Carolina Book AwardsWalk the dark halls and threatening streets of 1920s Asheville in this thrilling third installment of The Stephen Robbins Chronicles, as fan—favorite Robbins confronts the dangerous contrast between appearance and reality at the exclusive Grove Park Inn.

It’s the autumn of 1924, and Benjamin Loftis has a problem. A college girl is discovered—naked and dead—in one of the finest rooms of his beloved Grove Park Inn....