The Woman in Cabin 10
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By Ruth Ware
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THE TOP TEN BESTSELLER
From the bestselling author of Richard and Judy pick, In A Dark, Dark Wood comes Ruth Ware’s next compulsive page-turner
‘A rollicking page-turner that reads like Agatha Christie got together with Paula Hawkins to crowdsource a really fun thriller’ – Stylist
This was meant to be the perfect trip.
The Northern Lights. A luxury press launch on a boutique cruise ship.
A chance for travel journalist Lo Blacklock to recover from a traumatic break-in that has left her on the verge of collapse, and to work out what she wants from her relationship.
Except things don’t go as planned.
Woken in the night by screams, Lo rushes to her window to see a body thrown overboard from the next door cabin. But the records show that no-one ever checked into that cabin, and no passengers are missing from the boat.
Exhausted, emotional and increasingly desperate, Lo has to face the fact that she may have made a terrible mistake. Or she is trapped on a boat with a murderer – and she is the sole witness…
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Now a Netflix movie, this is the first of two novels featuring travel magazine writer Lo Blacklock. Lo has been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. One night she sees a woman passenger being thrown overboard, but as all the passengers are accounted for no-one believes her story, the ship sails on and Lo is increasingly made to feel as if the whole thing was her imagination. But was it really? As she tries to find out what really happened there are endless twists and turns which kept me on tenterhooks. It's an incredibly tense and fast-moving story, which I just couldn't put down and I was really sad to finish it. I enjoyed this so much that I immediately went onto our library website and found the next book to read (The Woman in Suite 11). This was compelling.
Review by: Northumberland Lass
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware is a chilling and gripping thriller set on board a small, luxurious cruise liner with only 10 cabins sailing from London to Norway on its maiden voyage.
A journalist, Laura (Lo) Blacklock, is on board writing a review of the ship. One night, she knocks on the door of a neighbouring cabin to borrow mascara from the young girl who answered the door.
After hearing a splash in the night, Lo believes that the girl has been murdered. Her sanity is questioned here as Cabin 10 was apparently unoccupied but she is determined to prove that someone had definitely been in Cabin 10 and had been murdered.
The author delivers an atmospheric and suspenseful story with several good twists that had me questioning and guessing what actually happened and who was involved.
The ending was intense and exciting with a surprising twist!
In summary, it’s an entertaining, enjoyable and fast-paced read and I would recommend it!
