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Zusatztext Praise for the New York Times Bestselling Booktown Mysteries “[A] delightful cozy mystery.”—Fresh Fiction “[A] stunning! unputdownable mystery.”— The Cozy Mystery Journal “Diverting entertainment...an engaging story line! an intrepid heroine…good for lovers of intrigue.”— Richmond Times-Dispatch “Entertaining! highly enjoyable...Lorna Barrett never fails to offer a suspenseful cozy mystery.”—Cozy Mystery Book Review “Fans of Carolyn Hart and Denise Swanson! rejoice!...This first-rate cozy artfully blends crime! cuisine! and even bookselling in a cheerful! witty! well-plotted puzzler.”—Julia Spencer-Fleming! New York Times bestselling author of Through the Evil Days “A mystery bookstore in a sleepy New England town! a cat named Miss Marple! a nasty murder! and a determined heroine...delightful...everything a cozy lover could want and more. Bravo!”—Leann Sweeney! national bestselling author of The Cat! the Vagabond! and the Victim Informationen zum Autor Lorna Barrett is the New York Times bestselling author of the Booktown Mysteries, including Poisoned Pages , A Just Clause , Title Wave , A Fatal Chapter , and Book Clubbed . She lives in Rochester, New York. Klappentext Tricia and Angelica leave Booktown behind for a pleasure cruise, but they're going to need their life jackets because a murderer is also on board in this mystery in Lorna Barrett's New York Times bestselling series. While her bookstore, Haven't Got a Clue, is rebuilt following a devastating fire, Tricia Miles and her sister, Angelica, decide to book a cruise for some much needed R & R. Naturally they choose a mystery lovers cruise, where they can ponder whodunit in deck chairs while sipping colorful drinks and soaking up some rays. But the fun is cut short when a fellow passenger is murdered for real. Is the killer a famous mystery author, one of her fans, or a member of the ship's crew? As Tricia tries to find the killer before they reach port, she may be cruising for a bruising... INCLUDES RECIPES ONE It was almost four in the afternoon, but already it had been a very long day. Too long a day, Tricia Miles decided as she shifted from one foot to the other. The day had started many hours before daylight, when she'd awoken to the sounds of her cat, Miss Marple, having a hairball at the end of her bed. She'd managed to whisk the cat off the snowy white spread in time to save it, but that was the end of her rest. Tricia still had so many things to accomplish before she; her sister, Angelica; and many friends and colleagues from the Stoneham Chamber of Commerce boarded a bus and headed for the Big Apple. No doubt about it, once the holidays were over, the shops along Stoneham's main drag might as well shut down until April, when the tourists came back in full force. What better time for everyone to take a much-needed vacation? At least, that was the pitch Angelica had given the Chamber members the previous fall when Milford Travel, a new member, had proposed the excursion. The Authors at Sea cruise would be filled with two dozen authors and thousands of their readers. Tricia had spent the previous six winters in Stoneham, with very little in the way of downtime. A vacation to the south that was dedicated to her favorite subject—reading—had sounded heavenly, but now she felt she needed a vacation from her vacation. The weather had held, but the bus had encountered a gigantic traffic jam outside of Boston that had put them more than an hour behind schedule, and so they'd had to cancel their planned breakfast stop. Somebody had suggested they sing to pass the time. A number of the group thought it was...
