Book request: I read this book about 13 years ago 2008 and I think it was around 8 years old at the time. I'm super hazy on the details because I was fairly young when i read it but it has stuck with me.So spoiler alertIts about someone investigating an abandoned hotel and the story was the builder/owner of it had agoraphobia and couldn't go outside. So he designed the building to have a network of tunnels inside the walls so he could spy on the ocuppants of the hotel. More vague details; it had a pool in it that i think while this guy was investigating was covered up. And the pool turns out to be super important to a murder investigation. But i can not be sure.

Matching book description: On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and begin preparations to break into the Paragon Hotel. Built in the glory days of Asbury Park by a reclusive millionaire, the magnificent structure - which foreshadowed the beauties of art deco architecture - is now boarded up and marked for demolition.The five people are "," the s On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and begin preparations to break into the Paragon Hotel. Built in the glory days of Asbury Park by a reclusive millionaire, the magnificent structure - which foreshadowed the beauties of art deco architecture - is now boarded up and marked for demolition.The five people are "," the slang term for urban explorers: city archeologists with a passion for investigating abandoned buildings and their dying secrets. On this evening, they are joined by a reporter who wants to profile them - anonymously, as this is highly illegal activity - for a New York Times article.Frank Balenger, a sandy-haired, broad-shouldered reporter with a decided air of mystery about him, isn't looking for just a story, however. And after the group enters the rat-infested tunnel leading to the hotel, it becomes clear that he will get much more than he bargained for. Danger, terror, and death await the  in a place ravaged by time and redolent of evil. ...more