Highly acclaimed New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman returns with an impossible to resist thriller providing Muriel Blossom, a former non-public investigator and center-elderly widow whose vacation on a Parisian river cruise becomes a lethal international mystery…that simplest she will resolve.
Mrs. Blossom isn’t the sort of woman to play the lottery. She is sensible, a dedicated grandmother, and has a knack for mixing into the history, which became an asset at some stage in her days helping non-public investigator Tess Monaghan.
But when Mrs. Blossom unearths a winning ticket in a parking zone, everything modifications…Along with Mrs. Blossom. She is determined to peer the world that every so often feels as if it’s passing her via.
But whilst Mrs. Blossom booked her cruise thru France on the MS Solitaire, she did now not assume to meet Allan on her transatlantic flight. He is the first man who’s sparked some thing interior her on account that her cherished husband passed.
She additionally didn’t anticipate Allan to be discovered, lifeless, twenty-4 hours later in Paris, a metropolis he wasn’t supposed to be in.
Now Mrs. Blossom doesn’t understand who to agree with on board the deliver, specially while a new, mystifying guy, Danny, maintains doping up around every nook, usually present while matters go awry. He claims that Allan was involved inside the shipping of a stolen, treasured piece of art, and he’s convinced that Mrs. Blossom is aware of greater than she shall we on, concerning each the artifact and Allan’s homicide.
Mrs. Blossom’s questions best boom because the cruise sails down the Seine. Why does it sense like she is being accompanied? Who was Allan, and why become he killed? Most alarmingly, why do these mysterious guys preserve flirting with her?
What follows is a captivating one-of-a-type thriller from considered one of Time magazine’s “crucial crime writers of the final one hundred years.” The best aggregate of at ease and interesting, this novel and the delightful Mrs. Blossom are certain to be unforgettable.