The Woman In Cabin 10 – Ruth Ware
Travel journalist Lo Blacklock has the chance to boost her career when she’s asked to cover the launch of a luxury cruise through Scandinavian waters in place of a pregnant co-worker. On the first night, drunk and suffering from a lack of sleep due to a recent home invasion and burglary, she believes she witnesses a woman being thrown overboard from the next cabin next over, but, when she reports it, the crew insists all passengers and staff are accounted for. Despite warnings to back off, she continues to dig, unsure of whom to trust or how to escape, until she becomes the next to disappear.
Nominated for a 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Favorite Mystery & Thriller, Ruth Ware’s The Woman in Cabin 10 was a rare miss from the author I’ve now read five times. I might have enjoyed this better had I not seen the movie version this past December, but instead it felt like a rehash of a story I already knew, which is surprising since normally I enjoy going back and reading the source material after having seen the movie adaptation. It has also been a decade since this was first released, so maybe Ware has grown as a writer in that time. Either way, she recently released a sequel, so maybe I’ll have to give that a try before it gets adapted and see if that makes a difference.
