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 book takes place on the Queen Mary in 1936, with flashbacks that take place in London a few weeks prior to the scenes on the Queen Mary. On board she becomes drawn into the wealthy Abernethy family circle, intrigued by their interactions and dazzled by the glamour, until another body is discovered. The dynamics in this book take on quite a few different directions, which include morality, alcohol and drugs, racism, class distinction, the unfairness that some women face and much more. I felt a weight lift and wiped tears from my cheeks as my body sagged forward over the railing, my legs shaking. After a murder at the club, the timing couldn’t be better and Lena jumps at the chance to escape England.

Any images and covers will have a text description for the visually impaired enabled through their device's text-to-speech function and similarly, this complies with digital braille readers and similar devices. After a murder at the club, the timing couldn't be better, and Lena jumps at the chance to escape England.And I’ve also been on the ship when she was in service as a transatlantic liner in the late 1950’s-early 60’s. The historical context is well done especially the values of the time, the almost casual institutional racism and the rise of Nazism is there in the background. She isn’t used to a life of luxury or hobnobbing with the rich but she soon realises that the rich are not that much different from everyone else and some are not to be trusted. Her career in London comes to a screeching halt when her boss, the husband of her best friend, is poisoned while in the audience.

As Will observes its okay for the black men of the band to entertain the rich and white, but not to fraternise with them and he’s very careful that he and Lena are not seen together.These range from Parker’s son in law, Jack Abernathy, whose hands roam inappropriately to his sweet and innocent granddaughter, Carrie. Set mainly on the Queen Mary, a British ocean liner sailing from England to New York, Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare brings mystery as well as racial and class differences to life in this historical mystery set in 1936. The story itself was lacked lustre or intrigue, which I had expected for a whodunnit set in the 30's on a cruise liner. 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. The pacing is also wrong, I don’t know what the editor was thinking when they said yes, this is good, no need to change anything.

I downloaded the audiobook because all the available text-based digital copies of this book had been checked out. On the other hand, it's easy to be in Lena's corner, whether it's about her budding romance with a pianist who treats her well, her strained relationship with a sister-like best friend, or her safety as a murderer stalks the corridors of the ship, I was cheering for her. The flow of the story was good but it didn't really feel much like Lena was investigating the goings on. He lit his own cigarette and leaned next to me on the railing, still slightly too close for comfort. The killer pretty much just explains it all and then doesn't even get held to account for the killing or framing of Lena.Losing her job, she tries to uncover his killer, and accepts an offer to sing in a Broadway musical in NYC. Instead, she’s stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in Soho and her married lover has just left her. I looked around and congratulated myself on my timing, darting forward to grab a table as a couple vacated it.

Miss Aldridge Regrets follows the seafaring adventures of singer and aspiring actress Lena Aldridge.

She covers up a murder, she uses cocaine, she lies, she drinks heavily, and she’s kind of a crappy friend. A brilliant murder mystery, it also explores class, race and pre-WWII politics, and will leave readers reeling from the beauty and power of it. The narrator should be dead from the 15-20 shots of whiskey he drinks in as many hours, and at times the story reads like a bizarre dream, but it all makes sense in the end. If you want a good mystery set on a ship, do yourself a favour and read Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie. 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.