Women's Hotel Books in Order

Residents of a modest women's hotel navigate work, friendship, and precarious independence in 1960s New York. As financial pressures and changing social conditions threaten the institution, its managers and tenants try to preserve the lives they have made within it.

Christmas brings seasonal jobs, family uncertainty, and unusual business ventures to the residents of the Biedermeier Hotel. While the manager investigates a rising telephone bill, suspicious behavior and missing museum jewels add another mystery to an already demanding holiday season.