Queen of Diamonds

<p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>March 1930</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ship's nurse Maeve Chandler of the luxury liner </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Queen Victoria</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is finding out all that dazzles may not be diamonds as she investigates a sparkling shipboard murder alongside up-and-coming diamantaire Harry Winston. The British luxury liner Queen </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Victoria </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is bound from New York to Cherbourg carrying several diamond dealers when one of them an irascible and miserly old man is found dead in his First-Class cabin seated in an armchair with no sign of struggle his mouth stuffed with diamonds and the cabin locked from the inside. Traveling with him is his young nephew who owes an insurmountable amount of cash to an American gangster and has fallen in love with a ship's nurse. Also along for the voyage is a mysterious gunman hired for protection by the uncle only the day before sailing as well as the uncle's former business partner feeling constant remorse for the deadly incident that led to their 30-year estrangement. Meanwhile diamonds of every sort seem to be coming and going aboard the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Queen Victoria</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> except the ones Maeve and Harry are searching for -- along with a killer not afraid to kill again.  Second in a series. 415 pages including bonus chapter for next book in series a reader's guide for book clubs and a lexicon of definitions and people from the era who are mentioned in the book.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A delightful cozy mystery. Marie Bostwick New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Book Club for Troublesome Women</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This wonderful debut will keep readers guessing until the end. J. Kenner New York Times and USA Today bestselling author o</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>f The Tower.</em></p>