Kirkus Reviews hails Mary Kruger's Gilded Age mysteries as "rich in period detail." Publishers Weekly calls them "creative and well-hidden." Now, Mary Kruger's captivating, just-married heroine sails off on her honeymoon cruise in a sparkling mystery set aboard a luxurious ocean liner...
No Honeymoon for Death
Recently married to her crime-solving partner, detective sergeant Matt Devlin, one-time debutante Brooke looks forward to her new life in Manhattan. But first her wealthy aunt insists that the Devlins have a proper honeymoon. The newlyweds find themselves sailing toward an idyllic month in England, ensconced in a suite deluxe aboard the majestic liner S.S. New York, a virtual floating city. They savor all the pleasures of a luxurious ocean cruise circa 1896...until their honeymoon is interrupted by the disappearance of a prominent financier. No less a personage than distinguished banker and fellow passenger J. P. Morgan insists that Matt investigate.All the evidence indicates murder, especially when a second body appears. Suspects on board include a Manhattan ward boss, a beautiful heiress en route to a loveless marriage to an English earl, and a professional cardsharp. But the Devlins' investigation is complicated by the ship's detective, whose credentials are less than sterling, and by an actor who yearns to be a crime-solver himself.
With a quartet of detectives working at cross-purposes, and only one day before their ship docks in Southampton, Brooke and Matt must sort out a tangled web of perplexing clues and misleading motives before they can force one particularly cunning killer to pay the full fare for murder.
Brimming with wit, elegance and high suspense, No Honeymoon for Death is a glittering period novel in the tradition of Anne Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mysteries.
