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

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The setting aboard the Queen Mary is excellent and there is a real clarity conveyed in the differences between those in the luxury of the upper decks and those below. Serendipitously Lena has just been offered a chance to appear in a play on Broadway and has been given first class tickets on the Queen Mary by Charlie Bacon claiming to be a Broadway agent, a man she has never met before. Once on board the Queen Mary in first class, Charlie manages to secure a place at the dinner table of a very wealthy family. I stared down into the churning water, wondering how long it would take for an object to hit the surface if it fell from such a height.

I'd overheard one of the other passengers say they'd seen her on their way over to England the month before. I will concede that much of the 'mystery' I guessed fairly early on bur like most cozy mysteries the novel doesn't hang on the cleverness of the crime. I did not find the story gripping enough to hold my attention and felt that I was wading through the book somewhat. After the death of her friend’s husband, the club manager, she is offered a dream job on Broadway and travels aboard the HMS Mary Queen to get to New York. Lena takes a first class ticket ride on the Queen Mary that might open many doors of opportunity for her.

She travels all over the ship and interacts with everyone from the filthy rich passengers in First Class to the ship’s employees. It is one of those novels that you can pick up and put down without overthinking things and getting too stressed out.

I opened my hand and let the bottle fall, holding my breath as it began to spin, almost hitting the side of the boat. He offers her to be a star in a Broadway play and she has to board on a ship to travel to big Apple in a few days later. I must admit I doubted that, as a witness to a sudden death, she would be allowed to travel abroad but, that was just my first concern with the plot and I was, at least at first, willing to go with it. However, I think that it gets a bit over the top but most importantly this also allows you to perceive who is behind proceedings. These range from Parker’s son in law, Jack Abernathy, whose hands roam inappropriately to his sweet and innocent granddaughter, Carrie.However, when another murder happens at sea, on the way to New York, to one of the Abernathy family members, Lena starts to wonder if her own life is in danger.