
The Aurora is a brand new super-luxury cruise liner that will travel around the Norwegian fjords for it's maiden voyage. This could be her way of finally getting that promotion if Lo can just keep it together enough to network among important people and help put their small travel magazine, Velocity, on the map. But she still has to go on this week long luxury cruise assignment for work since her boss is on maternity leave. She got in a huge fight with her boyfriend. When a break-in occurs in her apartment with her present, it brings her fear and anxiety to a whole new high. Laura Blacklock (she goes by Lo) suffers from extreme anxiety to the point of needing medicine to keep it under control. I guess I'll delve into the plot a tiny bit to get my point across while still avoiding spoilers. It felt like the author just replaced a few facts with similar enough things.changed the train into a luxury cruise liner. Usually even with all the similarities of thrillers these days, I can find enough originality in the story to feel the author didn't *try* to follow the same formula. It also felt like a not as good carbon copy of The Girl on the Train. I found I was expected to suspend my disbelief even more in The Woman in Cabin 10 and I wasn't having any of it. I enjoyed Ruth Ware's debut a lot more than this one. a brilliantly claustrophobic setting' Sunday Times 'A tense, moody drama set on a press trip that goes horribly wrong.

' Scary and unsettling, it's' edge-of-your-seat stuff' The Sun


But the records show that no-one ever checked into that cabin, and no passengers are missing from the boat.Įxhausted and emotional, Lo has to face the fact that she may have made a mistake - either that, or she is now trapped on a boat with a murderer. 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. 'Reads like Agatha Christie got together with Paula Hawkins to crowdsource a really fun thriller' StylistĪ PASSENGER IS MISSING.BUT WAS SHE EVER ON BOARD AT ALL?
