Shadow of the Queen

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> October 1929</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Murder books passage on the British luxury liner </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Queen Victoria</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> turning ship's nurse Maeve Chandler into an amateur sleuth apprenticing under the tutelage of mystery writer Agatha Christie. A passenger dies in full view of the first-class dining salon followed by a millionaire apparently leaping overboard a day before the New York stock market crashes. Add in an abusive husband pushed down an open lift shaft and a crewman left to cook against a boiler in the ship's engine room and a killer will walk free when the ship reaches New York unless Maeve and Agatha can unwind the clues -- but with 2935 suspects on board every revolution of the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Queen Victoria's</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> propellers means time is running out.  378 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. First in a series.</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 of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Tower</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p>