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

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I loved the setting of the Queen Mary, and the author did a wonderful job of describing life on the ocean liner.

This is a stand-alone novel that switches between a transatlantic sea voyage on the Queen Mary in 1936, and events from a week before. They exchanged a few words, but I saw his gaze wander as she talked, her conversation slowing to a trickle as she realized he wasn't listening. 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. But death follows her onboard when an obscenely wealthy family draws her into their fold just as one among them is killed in a chillingly familiar way.Throw in a Jazz Age ocean crossing on the Queen Mary and series of diabolical murders that would make Agatha Christie proud, and I was done for, turning the pages late into the night. I'd overheard one of the other passengers say they'd seen her on their way over to England the month before. Someone else wasn't so lucky; I heard a cry and saw a navy felt fedora tumble along the deck like a top. When the owner of the Canary club Tommy Scarsdale dies right in front of her, mixed race singer Lena Aldridge decides to accept the offer of a lifetime role in a Broadway show. I'll take one of those," he said to the waiter as he delivered my drink, the sparkling glass adorned with olives on a stick, just like in the movies.

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. In the few days I'd known him, Charlie Bacon had spent more in tips than I usually earned in a month.Originally from Warrington, the capital is the inspiration for much of her work, including This Lovely City, which began life after a trip into the deep level shelter below Clapham Common. Also maybe not that much of a mystery, cause i think alot of people might have guessed who the killer was since the author was trying hard to misdirect but overall engaging and i liked the time spent reading this book. 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. It's the 1930s, and there are major consequences for her profession and personal life depending on how she is perceived.

With every character hiding something, Louise Hare builds the story in a way that is compelling and completely unputdownable. A gripping tale set in London, 1936, when Lena -- a biracial nightclub singer who passes as white -- sees her poisoned boss die in front of her. I received an e-ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review via Netgalley; this does not affect my rating nor my opinions in any way. It had a definite Agatha Christie feel to it where everyone was a suspect, my only criticism would be that the ending felt slightly rushed but would definitely recommend to any historical thriller fans. The dynamics between the family are vividly portrayed and we have everything from wealthy gilded cages to philandering.The text can also be freely manipulated to allow readers to change every element such as text size, font, colour, line height and margins as suits their accessibility needs. The characters that we root for all have their own baggage and there arent your traditional goodies and baddies on show here. The flow of the story was good but it didn't really feel much like Lena was investigating the goings on.

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.Up here, where one mingled with the likes of Frankie Abernathy, the air was reserved for the wealthy. One is fairly easy to guess, and dropped without much fanfare after you find out what happened, but the others seemed more farfetched and needed more groundwork established.