Miss Aldridge Regrets: from the bestselling author of This Lovely City comes a new gripping historical murder mystery in 2022!

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However, she never really seems to go beyond the characters on the table and Hare does not make use of the closed shipboard setting as well as she could. With seductive glamor, simmering family drama, and dizzying twists, Louise Hare makes her beguiling US debut.

And on that note," he continued, "I've been down to the dining room to check on the table assignments. I opened my hand and let the bottle fall, holding my breath as it began to spin, almost hitting the side of the boat. On the other hand, it's easy to be in Lena's corner, whether it's about her budding romance with a pianist who treats her well, her strained relationship with a sister-like best friend, or her safety as a murderer stalks the corridors of the ship, I was cheering for her.Lena is crossing over to New York for a job that promises Broadway stardom, leaving behind her job as a singer in a seedy bar, her best friend, and a murder that's casting a shadow over her life and her future. But death follows her onboard when an obscenely wealthy family draws her into their fold just as one among them is killed in a chillingly familiar way. To think of all the things the author could have done with a setting such as the RMS Queen Mary, it makes me keen on picking up a pen and rewriting the whole book.

While most of the story is from Lena’s viewpoint, there are interspersed thoughts recorded in a diary by another person. Considering that this book is written in first person narrative, as well as by means of a diary, we just are given privy to Lena‘s thoughts and concerns while she is on this trip.Any images and covers will have a text description for the visually impaired enabled through their device's text-to-speech function and similarly, this complies with digital braille readers and similar devices. Lena takes a first class ticket ride on the Queen Mary that might open many doors of opportunity for her. Even so, I hoped that anyone seeing me in such a state would assume an attack of seasickness, that they'd glance out on the relative calm of the sea and take pity on me, wondering how I'd survive once we hit choppier waters.