So of course, there is the obligatory 'problem' with him. Lo has a wonderful, kind, supportive boyfriend waiting for her back home. The book would have been just as gripping if she didn't have a drinking problem. Why the authors feel the need to give the women so many problems I don't understand. Both feature characters that have a drinking problem. I felt a similarity between this and The Girl on the Train. Lo is sure of what she saw, but every one else begins to suspect it was her imagination.

As she rushed to report it, she is told that cabin 10 is empty and has been so the whole time. On the first evening on the ship, after a night of heavy drinking at the welcome party, Lo hears something thrown overboard from cabin 10 and becomes convinced it was a body. The ship only has 10 cabins, so it will be a small intimate voyage.

She is given the job of attending the inaugural voyage of a luxury cruise ship, the Aurora. I am fascinated with cruise ships and I love mysteries, so it sounded perfect! The story concerns Lo Blacklock, a journalist for a travel magazine. With surprising twists, spine-tingling turns, and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it is eerily beautiful, Ruth Ware offers up another taut and intense read in The Woman in Cabin 10-one that will leave even the most sure-footed reader restlessly uneasy long after the last page is turned. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for-and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo’s desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea.Īt first, Lo’s stay is nothing but pleasant, but as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the desk, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins.

From New York Times bestselling author of the “twisty-mystery” ( Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware-this time, set at sea.

The woman from cabin 10