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. Meanwhile, on the mainland nobody has heard from her and presume she is dead.
After reporting the murder to authorities on the ship, they make her feel crazy because they can't find any of the evidence she references. She ends up becoming a witness to a murder. 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 journalist Lo is invited on a maiden voyage of a cruise ship. A break-in at her London flat days before her departure does little more than set up Lo as an easily startled protagonist. Contrast the guest quarters to those of the crew.
But it was the graphic illustration of the gap between the haves and have-nots that was upsetting' (p. The only thing she can really commit to is drinking. She is dating Judah, a transplanted New Yorker, they seem happy enough but she cannot seem to commit to him. 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. When Lo sees the staff quarters on the Aurora, she says, 'the rooms were no worse than plenty of cross-channel ferries I’d traveled on. She's a writer for a travel magazine, not exactly a bad job, but she hasn't really progressed in her 10 years with the company.
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