ISBN: 9780593439258
Editorial: Berkley
Autor: Hare, Louise
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 368
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Product Description"Would make Agatha Christie proud... Irresistible and smart."—Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia PalaceNamed A Most Anticipated Mystery of Summer by Betches, Essence, Crime Reads and more!The glittering RMS Queen Mary. A nightclub singer on the run. An aristocratic family with secrets worth killing for.London, 1936. Lena Aldridge wonders if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn’t worked out. Instead, she’s stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in Soho, and her married lover has just left her. But Lena has always had a complicated life, one shrouded in mystery as a mixed-race girl passing for white in a city unforgiving of her true racial heritage.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. After a murder at the club, the timing couldn’t be better, and Lena jumps at the chance to escape England. 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. As Lena navigates the Abernathy’s increasingly bizarre family dynamic, she realizes that her greatest performance won't be for an audience, but for her life.With seductive glamor, simmering family drama, and dizzying twists, Louise Hare makes her beguiling US debut.Review"In Lena Aldridge, Hare has created a heroine who practically leaps off the page with her sharp wit and incandescence. 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. Irresistible and smart."—Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue“Fiendishly plotted with more twists than a corkscrew, this nineteen thirties novel set on board the Queen Mary is a real page turner.”—Rhys Bowen, New York Times Bestselling author of the Royal Spyness series“Full of intrigue and tension, Miss Aldridge Regrets is an expertly plotted, beautifully set novel. With every character hiding something, Louise Hare builds the story in a way that is compelling and completely unputdownable.”—Nekesa Afia, author of Dead Dead Girls“With vividly drawn characters, this exciting blend of murder mystery and historical romance is hard to put down once one starts reading.”—Library JournalAbout the AuthorLouise Hare is a London-based author. Her debut novel, This Lovely City, was published in the UK to wide acclaim, and was a Between the Covers Book Club Pick on BBC Two. She has an MA in creative writing from the University of London.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.ChapterOneWednesday, 2 SeptemberQueen MaryI 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 had found a spot at the quieter end of the Promenade Deck, several stories above the fierce white-capped waves. I opened my hand and let the bottle fall, holding my breath as it began to spin, almost hitting the side of the boat. Small and brown, the bottle looked ordinary, but its contents were lethal, and I welcomed its demise, the bottle destined to sink until it came to rest on the floor of the English Channel. I felt a weight lift and wiped tears from my cheeks as my body sagged forward over the railing, my legs shaking. For days, I had carried death with me, and finally, I was free of it.The Queen Mary sailed on toward France, Cherbourg our only port of call before we would strike west toward New York. The ship brushed the waves aside as gracefully as the women of Hampstead danced their breaststroke across Kenwood Ladies' Pond. Smooth. Effortless. Even so, I hoped that anyone seeing me in such a state would assume an attack of seasickness, that they'd glance out on
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