by Ruth Ware
First published 2017
Lo Blacklock boards the Aurora, an exclusive cruise ship sailing the North Sea with only a handful of elite passengers. The travel magazine writer expects a week of luxury assignments and elegant dinner parties in her plush cabin. Clear skies and calm waters make for a perfect start to the voyage. Then the weather turns. Frigid winds batter the deck and gray skies close in. Lo witnesses something that chills her to the bone: a woman being hurled overboard into the dark waters. She reports the incident immediately, but the crew dismisses her claims. Every passenger remains accounted for. No one is missing. The ship continues its voyage as if nothing happened. Lo knows what she saw, but everyone around her insists the woman never existed. Trapped on the Aurora with nowhere to run, Lo must prove that a crime occurred while questioning her own sanity.
Genres: suspense, mystery, thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: trapped, unreliable-narrator
Setting: North Sea
340 pages · Paperback · Gallery/Scout Press
Content warnings: anxiety, mental-illness