A real murder on a Murder Mystery Cruise…

Synopsis

Famous crime writer Bella Tyson is hired to co-host a Murder Mystery cruise, on a luxury liner sailing from Southampton to New York. She’s expecting an easy ride; fun and games, surrounded by amateur sleuths and fans of her books, all the while staying in a deluxe cabin and enjoying the spa and the amazing restaurants on board, culminating in a visit to one of her favourite cities in the world – the Big Apple.

She’s NOT expecting to be stuck on a boat in the middle of the Atlantic with her two least favourite people in the world, her hot but unfaithful bastard ex-husband Joel Quigley and fellow crime writer, bitch goddess and Twitter frenemy, Louise Meyers. And when real live dead bodies start turning up – as well as fake not-really-dead bodies – Bella’s dreams of being pampered on the high seas turn sour.

Accused of a murder she would have liked to commit but didn’t, and helped (or hindered) by a gang of unlikely detectives, can Bella find out who the real murderer is before the ship reaches its destination and New York’s finest drag her off?

My review

Crime writer Bella Tyson finds herself with her husband participating on a Murder Mystery Cruise. The purpose of the cruise is that the participating passengers find out who “murdered” a person on the cruise ship. Of course it’s all part of a staged murder!

Bella’s enthusiasm dies a little bit when on the cruise also her ex-husband is present, together with a fellow crime writer, her known nemesis Louise Meyers.
Yet she is determined to make the best of it!

But when beside all the bickering, a real murder is taking place, Bella finds herself being the prime suspect. So Will and she start doing some investigating, trying to clear her name and find the real murderer.
Easier said than done, but luckily they can count of help from even the least expected places!

Ok, this book has a murder in, yet I had so much fun reading it! Bella is so hilariously honest, I just wanted to be like her!
She is a famous writer, and just married to wonderful Will, after her previous husband cheated several times on her.
And being in a happy place, doesn’t mean she doesn’t curse now and then (ok, almost all the time!).

Yet the way she adores Will and visa versa, is so sweet to read about! The way they communicate with each other is so funny, yet it matches perfectly with the vision I had in mind for the two of them!

When the murder takes place, I somehow had a feeling who would be the culprit, yet it didn’t diminish the eagerness to continue reading!
I was curious to find out how the murderer would be unveiled and what the reason was for those actions.

The thing that made me even enjoy this book even more, were the small remarks towards the readers (towards us thus 😃). Bella talking to us, is making us being more part of the story. And the things that she is saying, are to take away all those silly clichés or just pointing them out that despite they are silly, even in this story they are present.

A great book, with a main character a bit different than we are used to have, making this even more charming!