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

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She's feeling utterly hopeless until a stranger offers her the chance of a lifetime: a starring role on Broadway and a first-class ticket on the Queen Mary bound for New York. There's a murder that is introduced at the beginning of the story and referred to throughout but the big murder the blurb refers to, the one the real mystery of the story hinges on doesn't occur until the end of the first third of the book. After a murder at the club, the timing couldn't be better, and Lena jumps at the chance to escape England. Her debut novel, This Lovely City, was published in the UK to wide acclaim, and was a Between the Covers Book Club Pick on BBC Two. I understand it’s historical fiction and probably the author wanted to set the tone, but it was too much tone and too little actual substance.

When a stranger offers her a starring role on Broadways and a first-class ticket on the Queen Mary, she ends up accepting it, despite knowing very little about the opportunity or the people. She travels all over the ship and interacts with everyone from the filthy rich passengers in First Class to the ship’s employees.Small and brown, the bottle looked ordinary, but its contents were lethal, and I welcomed its demise, the bottle destined to sink until it came to rest on the floor of the English Channel. I also think this book does not add anything to the mystery genre in general, but maybe I am being to harsh. I look forward to what's next for Lena as the setup of her prospects in New York and reconnect with Will on the ship and Maggie back in London are sure to be interesting.

Eat peppermint creams from one of those fancy boxes with the tissue paper while sipping champagne that my steward would fetch whenever I rang the bell. 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.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.