![]() Agent: Eve White, Eve White Literary (U.K.). Those expecting a Christie-style locked-room mystery at sea will be disappointed. ![]() No one, unsurprisingly, believes her, or buys her story of a mysterious woman she saw lurking on the ship hours earlier. Everything on the Aurora is sparkly and decadent, from the chandeliers to the wealthy guests, most of whom are either fellow travel writers or investors brought on by owner Lord Richard Bullmer, but Lo is distracted from the scenery-the ship is headed for a tour of the Norwegian fjords-by her certainty that she heard the unmistakable sound of a body hitting the water from the adjacent cabin. A break-in at her London flat days before her departure does little more than set up Lo as an easily startled protagonist. She manages to escape but is traumatized, suffering from PTSD and prescribed antidepressants to help with the anxiety. ![]() In Ware’s underwhelming sophomore mystery (after 2015’s In a Dark, Dark Wood), Laura “Lo” Blacklock thinks stepping in for her pregnant boss for a week-long jaunt on the new miniature cruise ship Aurora will give her a leg up at Velocity, the magazine where she’s toiled for years. In the middle of the night, there is a knock on her door and Lo is startled to find it is the woman from Cabin 10. The novel begins with Lo Blacklock trapped in her bedroom as a burglar ransacks her apartment in London, England. ![]()
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