Genre: Mystery
Mass Market Paperback; Digital Book
ISBN #: 9781496727138
Kensington Publishing
320 Pages
$8.29; $7.69 Amazon
March 30, 2021
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It promises to be Greyborne Harbor's wedding of the year. The impending nuptials of Serena Chandler and Zach Ludlow will take place aboard his family's luxurious super-yacht, currently moored in the harbor and the talk of the town. But on the day of the wedding, a man's body washes up on the beach with no ID, only a torn page from a book in his pocket. As owner of Beyond the Page Books and Curios, bibliophile Addie is called in to identify the book, but she cannot.
The morning following the extravagant ceremony, a second body washes ashore and Addie has a sinking feeling that the two deaths are connected. While the guests are held on the yacht as the police investigate, at least Addie can peruse Zach's father's rare books library on board. A copy of Agatha Christie's first Hercule Poirot novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, provides a clue that the killer may still be on the ship -- but narrowing down the suspects without becoming the next victim may prove a truly Herculean task...
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Addison Greyborne lives in Greyborne Harbor and owns a bookshop that deals in both new and rare books. While preparing for her best friend Serena's wedding, she's called by Serena's brother Marc, chief of police, to the station. He needs her help in identifying the body of dead man who was found with nothing but a torn corner from a book. Unfortunately, Addie can't help him and leaves to go to the super-yacht where the wedding is to be held.
When a second body is discovered after the wedding, the ship is locked down with guests aboard, since any one of them could be the murderer. Now Marc needs Addie's help more than ever, and if one of them doesn't find a killer soon, they may be out to sea forever...
This is the sixth book in the series and perhaps my favorite one so far. Addie is stuck on a yacht with a group of people she doesn't know and a couple she does; and she enlists the help of her friend Catherine and employee Paige to help her try and figure out who wanted these people dead. Since Addie is, at least, being asked by Marc to help, she's given more information from the police than she ordinarily would have -- and Marc's not telling her to leave it alone.
But when Addie starts her investigating, she finds out things she wish she really didn't know, and secrets she didn't want to come across. Could any of them give cause to murder? And how did they get the body off the ship when it was full of people?
The mystery is done very nicely; there are enough red herrings on this ship to make a feast out of it. We do also get to see how the relationship with Addie and Simon is going, as well as the one with Marc and Ryley, and there are surprises there as well.
Not wanting to give much more away than what I've said, I will say that it all comes together nicely, and the murderer is discovered just in the nick of time. This is a very good book than can be read in one sitting and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Recommended.
More on Lauren Elliott's Books: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/e/lauren-elliott/
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