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The buffet is unlimited. The life expectancy is not. Helen Cross is a retired British criminal barrister who prefers evidence to emotion. Susan Marsh is a retired paramedic who knows a suspicious death when she sees one. They were hoping for a relaxing holiday. They got a crime scene with a sea view. When Helen agrees to join her best friend Susan on the O&C Alora for a wedding cruise to the Caribbean, she expects nothing worse than forced conga lines, mediocre cabaret, and a two-week struggle to avoid the hand sanitizer police. But the Alora is carrying baggage heavier than the passengers' suitcases. The wedding party is a disaster waiting to happen: a groom whose inheritance is hanging by a thread, an uncle who manages to offend everyone on board before the ship even clears the Solent, and a father of the bride who combines a chip on his shoulder with a conviction for assult. When the uncle is found dead at the bottom of a staircase during a storm in the Bay of Biscay, the ship's Head of Security calls it a tragic accident. Drunk passenger. Rough seas. Case closed. Then a second guest is found dead in the spa. The ship's doctor calls it heat exhaustion. But Susan spots what the medical team missed: steam doesn't bleach wooden benches white, and humidity doesn't corrode stainless steel overnight. Trapped in the middle of the Atlantic with a useless security team and a killer who is picking off the wedding guests one by one, Helen and Susan must trade the sun loungers for the interview room and use every trick in their professional arsenal to uncover the truth. They have six days before the ship docks in Barbados and the killer vanishes forever. Unfortunately, the killer knows it too-and they've just decided that two inquisitive pensioners might be the next items to slip overboard. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club, Robert Thorogood's The Marlow Murder Club, and the sharp wit of Deanna Raybourn.

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