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Book Review…Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare The glittering RMS Queen Mary. A nightclub singer on the run. An aristocratic family with secrets worth killing for. Lena Aldridge wonders if life has passed her by. She's stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in Soho, and her married lover has just left her. But Lena has always had a complicated life. She's feeling utterly hopeless until a stranger offers her the chance of a lifetime: a role on Broadway and a first-class ticket on the Queen Mary. After a murder at the club, the timing couldn't be better. But death follows her onboard a wealthy family draws her into their fold just as one among them is killed in a chillingly familiar way. As Lena navigates the Abernathy's bizarre family dynamic, she realizes that her greatest performance won't be for an audience, but for her life. A wonderful historical fiction that has a large mix of topics! Class difference, sex traffic, betrayal, cheating and racism. And a gripping whodunnit and a forbidden romance! With so much going on I can't think of a moment that I wasn't entertained! There's two timelines: the sea voyage on the Queen Mary in 1936, and events from a week before. It does take a little to get going but the tension and adventure builds and builds the closer they get to New York. It was entertaining and the writing was wonderful! #MissAldridgeRegrets #LouiseHare #books #BerkleyBooks #PenguinRandomHouse #read #bookreview #historicalmysteryread #booklover #readsta #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookishpost #bookrecommendation #instaread #instabook #instabookreview #bookish https://www.instagram.com/p/CgHUSoylqIl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Many thanks to Berkley for eARC. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Miss Aldridge Regrets is engaging historical crime mystery that revolves around Lena Aldridge, a showgirl in London Soho, finds herself amid murders and drama of upper class family when she has to leave London after the murder of her best friend’s husband and owner of the club she worked at. The plot is filled with glamor, mystery and drama that take place mostly on the ship, RMS Queen Mary while all the backstories of characters take place in London that mostly includes what happenes in Lena’s life a week ago and how that influences her to take role on Broadway and board the ship to NY. I loved layers in the story and the setting of Queen Mary. We see the class differences on the ship, how the floors was divided in classes, some people were allowed to explore certain levels while some were not, and how staff also behaved as per the class they dealt with was interesting to read. We also read the struggle of working class family, life in Soho through Lena’s past and prejudice of higher class through secondary characters and Abernathy family. Mystery is most interesting, well written filled with red herring. Climax is tense. I couldn’t guess the killer until this point. I’m also disappointed with the reasons motive of whole game. It didn’t make sense the way the killer changed thoughts and decisions which makes the end weird, implausible and questioning the morals and ethics that’s why it’s a 4 star from me. However, I could agree on one thing one has to put their own survival first when caught in situation like this so I don’t mind Lena’s decision in the end. Overall, this is intriguing, well written and fun historical murder mystery with many layers and perfect setting. * Swipe for check points * QOTD - which is your favorite historical mystery? . . . . . #MissAldridgeRegrets #LouiseHare #BerkleyBooks #HistoricalFiction #HistoricalFIctionlovers #Historicalfictionreader #20thcenturysetting #Historicalmystery #Crimemystery #murdermystery #historicalmurdermystery #bookreview #Bookreviewer #readersofig #bookblogging #bookbloggers #bookbloggersofig #BooksTeacupandReviews #indianbookstagram #bookishaesthetic https://www.instagram.com/p/CfrZ16ovc8n/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=