Miss Aldridge Regrets, Louise Hare
Miss Aldridge Regrets, Louise Hare
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Miss Aldridge Regrets

Author: Louise Hare

Narrator: Georgina Campbell

Unabridged: 12 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 07/05/2022


Synopsis

“Super cinematic and every bit as Agatha Christie-esque as its sounds... ifyou like murder mysteries, pick this one up!”
 
-Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers

Named A Most Anticipated Mystery of Summer by Betches, Essence, Crime Reads and more!

The glittering RMS Queen Mary. A nightclub singer on the run. An aristocratic family with secrets worth killing for.

London, 1936. Lena Aldridge wonders if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn’t worked out. Instead, 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, one shrouded in mystery as a mixed-race girl passing for white in a city unforgiving of her true racial heritage.

She’s feeling utterly hopeless until a stranger offers her the chance of a lifetime: a starring role on Broadway and a first-class ticket on the Queen Mary bound for New York. After a murder at the club, the timing couldn’t be better, and Lena jumps at the chance to escape England. But death follows her onboard when an obscenely 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 increasingly bizarre family dynamic, she realizes that her greatest performance won't be for an audience, but for her life.

With seductive glamor, simmering family drama, and dizzying twists, Louise Hare makes her beguiling US debut.

About The Author

Louise Hare is a London-based author. Her debut novel, This Lovely City, was published in the UK to wide acclaim, and was a Between the Covers Book Club Pick on BBC Two. She has an MA in creative writing from the University of London. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer

Well, well this is thrilling mash up of Woman in cabin 10 meets Titanic with Agatha Christie vibes ( it reminds me of Death on the Nile without its brilliant Belgian detective ) A glamorous historical fiction consists of class differences, raising of Nazism, hard competition at Broadway world, sex......more

Goodreads review by PamG

Set mainly on the Queen Mary, a British ocean liner sailing from England to New York, Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare brings mystery as well as racial and class differences to life in this historical mystery set in 1936. The story features Lena Aldridge, a mixed-race singer, dancer, and act......more

Goodreads review by Tim

I'm new to the cozy mystery subgenre, or am I? I'm not sure, but I do know I'm new to the term. My new friend 'Lois is recovering slowly' introduced me to the term last Friday (18 Nov 22). I was looking for a book to read over the weekend, and I was attracted to the title and cover of Miss Aldridge......more

Goodreads review by Ceecee

3.5 rounded up. When the owner of the Canary club Tommy Scarsdale dies right in front of her, mixed race singer Lena Aldridge decides to accept the offer of a lifetime role in a Broadway show. What has she got to lose? She has no job, her beloved father Alfie has recently died and she’s all alone ba......more

Goodreads review by Anissa

3.5 stars. I enjoyed this and will definitely read the next in the series. There's a murder that is introduced at the beginning of the story and referred to throughout but the big murder the blurb refers to, the one the real mystery of the story hinges on doesn't occur until the end of the first thi......more


Quotes

"In Lena Aldridge, Hare has created a heroine who practically leaps off the page with her sharp wit and incandescence. Throw in a Jazz Age ocean crossing on the Queen Mary and series of diabolical murders that would make Agatha Christie proud, and I was done for, turning the pages late into the night. Irresistible and smart."
Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue

“Fiendishly plotted with more twists than a corkscrew, this nineteen thirties novel set on board the Queen Mary is a real page turner.”
Rhys Bowen, New York Times Bestselling author of the Royal Spyness series

“Full of intrigue and tension, Miss Aldridge Regrets is an expertly plotted, beautifully set novel. With every character hiding something, Louise Hare builds the story in a way that is compelling and completely unputdownable.”
Nekesa Afia, author of Dead Dead Girls

“With vividly drawn characters, this exciting blend of murder mystery and historical romance is hard to put down once one starts reading.”—Library Journal