The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth WareMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
Oh dear. After Ruth Ware’s In A Dark, Dark Wood I found The Woman in Cabin 10 underwhelming to say the least. Who would send a neurotic, paranoid woman for a week-long jaunt on the new miniature cruise ship Aurora, to ‘network’ with high profile passengers and, as a travel writer, report back to her employer Velocity, the magazine where she’s toiled for years. Laura “Lo” Blacklock thinks stepping in for her pregnant boss will give her a leg-up at the magazine. Really? The ship is headed for a tour of the Norwegian fjords organised by owner Lord Richard Bullmer. And then Lo is completed distracted by her certainty that she heard the unmistakable sound of a body hitting the water from the adjacent cabin. No one, unsurprisingly, believes her, or buys her story of a mysterious woman she saw lurking on the ship hours earlier. The plot really stretches credulity and there were so many times I wanted to shove Lo in a sack and give her a good shake. Her increasing hysteria, her alcohol consumption, the number of times she starts to speak, says “I….” and nothing else…. Just became irritating.
Not for me.
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