She embarks the Aurora, and a few hours later, tries to muster enough energy to dine with the ship’s illustrious guest. Sleep-deprived, exhausted, and mentally unprepared to take on this assignment, Lo forges ahead determined to achieve recognition. But Lo doesn’t know what she wants, not just yet. And adding to her anxiety, she discovers her commitment-ready boyfriend, Judah, turned down an important job in New York City to be with her in London.
Just days before Lo embarks on her assignment, she’s burglarized, rapidly sending her into INSOMNIA and PARANOIA which dictates the rest of the story. As a journalist for Velocity, a travel magazine, she’s just received a big break she’d been looking for―an assignment aboard the Aurora, a boutique luxury cruise linear traveling around the NORWEGIAN FJORDS. Lo (Laurie) Blacklock, a claustrophobic, paranoid, insomniac journalist, who uses alcohol to self-medicate is the main character. Told in the FIRST PERSON POV, The Woman In Cabin 10 is a PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER/MURDER MYSTERY reminiscent of an Agatha Christie’s whodunit novel, but without the shrewd sleuth. Though I was tempted to read her first book, the cover and summary of this novel caught my attention as a thrilling summer read aboard a luxury cruise in the North Sea. The Woman in Cabin 10 is my first book by Ruth Ware. 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… But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard.
At first, Lo’s stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant.
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. 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.
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