Miss Aldridge Regrets: from the bestselling author of This Lovely City comes a new gripping historical murder mystery in 2022!

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She covers up a murder, she uses cocaine, she lies, she drinks heavily, and she’s kind of a crappy friend. I felt a weight lift and wiped tears from my cheeks as my body sagged forward over the railing, my legs shaking. Lena takes a first class ticket ride on the Queen Mary that might open many doors of opportunity for her. Instead, she's stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in Soho and her married lover has just left her.

Berkley Publishing Group and Louise Hare provided a complimentary digital ARC of this novel via NetGalley. When a second murder eerily similar to the one haunting her steps takes place on the ship, Lena is suspicious of how they might be connected and what danger it might mean for her.Luckily a friend of her father's finds her a job ,and she makes her way from England to New York in first class on the Queen Mary. I must admit I doubted that, as a witness to a sudden death, she would be allowed to travel abroad but, that was just my first concern with the plot and I was, at least at first, willing to go with it. Unfortunately for this one, most of the books that I have read recently have used the format of going backwards and forwards in time so my heart sank when I found that this too used that format.

The story itself was lacked lustre or intrigue, which I had expected for a whodunnit set in the 30's on a cruise liner. The vast bulk of the story takes place on the cruise liner as Lena gets involved with a very rich family and secrets are revealed as well as murders! I usually love mysteries set on cruise ships or trains, because they have the feeling of a locked-room mystery, but with a little more scope for the investigation.While I enjoyed this read and I liked Lena a lot I can’t say I’ll be waiting anxiously for the next book. The flow of the story was good but it didn't really feel much like Lena was investigating the goings on.