The day before diving into the world of cruising, clumsy Lo is attacked in her own home by a mysterious intruder. Add to this the fact that she might have accidentally broken up with her longtime boyfriend, and you’ve got a tense situation that has all the trappings of a self-fulling prophecy on the stormy, open seas. It’s ten years in coming and a chance that landed in her lap more from lack of planning than merit. It begins when Lo Blacklock, commitment phobic alcoholic, finally gets her big chance to review the sumptuous cruise ship Aurora while her illustrious fellow journalist colleague is away on maternity leave.
We have a paranoid, unreliable narrator, a confining cruise ship, and a cast of suspicious high-life adventurers and millionaires – all with strange, sometimes sinister mannerisms. Gaining on such blockbuster bestsellers as Gone Girl and Woman on The Train, Ruth Ware’s The Woman in Cabin 10 is an edgy and claustrophobic story in classical Agatha Christie tradition. But the records show that no-one ever checked into that cabin, and no passengers are missing from the boat.Rating: Modern Paranoia Meets Agatha Christie Woken in the night by screams, Lo rushes to her window to see a body thrown overboard from the next door cabin. A luxury press launch on a boutique cruise ship.Ī chance for travel journalist Lo Blacklock to recover from a traumatic break-in that has left her on the verge of collapse. I must have forgotten to shut the kitchen door last night.
The first inkling that something was wrong was waking in darkness to find the cat pawing my face.
Her laughing eyes were white and bloated with salt water, her pale skin was wrinkled, her clothes ripped by jagged rocks and disintegrating into rags. In my dream, the girl was drifting, far, far below the crashing waves and the cries of the gulls, in the cold, sun-less depths of the North Sea. This week’s book is The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware, one of the books for my 10 Books of Summer Challenge. Every Tuesday First Chapter, First Paragraph/Intros is hosted by Vicky of I’d Rather Be at the Beach sharing the first paragraph or two of a book she’s reading or plans to read soon.
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