Miss Aldridge Regrets: from the bestselling author of This Lovely City comes a new gripping historical murder mystery in 2022!

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While the book did not leave me with a sense of astonishment and wonder, it did provide great insights into many factors of the times such as racism, drug addiction, drinking alcohol to excess, family dynamics, friendship, glamor, class dynamics, music, smoking, politics, attitudes about women, and much more. I liked that the second murder happened on the ship, in the middle of the ocean, with no place to escape, so we knew the murderer had to be on board the ship. It was difficult to absorb yourself in the narrative and I soon got to the stage where I didn’t really care. He hadn't told me his name, but we were standing so close to each other that his hand brushed my hip as he lowered it.

I can honestly say I didn’t have a clue what was coming for Lena’s private life, or who was next in the murderer’s firing line.It’s such an exciting, riveting historical fiction meets thriller- whodunnit mystery that fully enjoyed and devoured in one sit that I highly recommend!

Poor Lena gets drawn into the family's nightly dinners and also gets pulled into being questioned about the murder of one of their family members. But it just felt like it was underwritten, and certainly I needed more reasoning and feeling behind the choices that are made. I don’t care that the book was set in the 1930s, she had a kind of life up untile the point where the book starts that you’d think she would know how to use her brain. She also becomes the confidant of everyone associated with the Abernathys purely because she is both of the family (she sits at their table every night, along with Charlie Walker, who urges her to charm them) and not of their family. It was a little bit mixed, with the author trying to capture the era and its social and ethnic status issues, and weave in a murder.Lena is crossing over to New York for a job that promises Broadway stardom, leaving behind her job as a singer in a seedy bar, her best friend, and a murder that's casting a shadow over her life and her future. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. She has nothing to look forward to until a stranger offers her the chance of a lifetime: a starring role on Broadway and a first-class ticket on the Queen Mary bound for New York. A glamorous historical fiction consists of class differences, raising of Nazism, hard competition at Broadway world, sex traffic of underaged girls, betrayal, cheating, racism, mansplaining mixed with gripping whodunnit mystery takes place in RMS Queen Mary.