The Jefferson Hotel Mirror: Room 202 and a 1920s Murder (Echoes in the Lobby: Historic Hotel Mysteries of America’s Hidden Past) Hardcover – March 3, 2026

In the summer of 1928, socialite Elizabeth “Beth” Davis arrives at the storied Jefferson Hotel in Richmond for a week of political gatherings and Southern society pageantry. While her husband attends Democratic meetings during a heated presidential election year, Beth begins to experience unsettling dreams tied to Room 202—the suite she and her father once shared years earlier.A mirror in the room seems to reflect more than her own image. It reveals fragments of another summer in the 1920s—whispers of secret meetings, tense political alliances, and the shadow of a young man whose death was quietly buried by the city’s elite.As Beth follows a trail through old hotel registers and newspaper archives, she uncovers a story that challenges everything she believed about family, legacy, and the polished world of old Virginia wealth. What begins as curiosity deepens into a reckoning with the past—one that threatens reputations, political ambitions, and the fragile bond between a daughter and her father.Some rooms remember. And some mirrors refuse to forget. Read more