Review #437: The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.”

----Banksy

Ruth Ware, an English author, pens an engrossing and tensed Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" themed thriller in her new book, The Woman in Cabin 10 that narrates the journey of a female travel writer aboard a cruise ship with a handful of other VIP guests who is certain that a murder has been committed on the very ship and that killer as well as the victim might be one of them among the invited guests. Unfortunately, no one resembles the murder victim's description from the guest list and the guests are certain that the travel writer is a paranoid woman.

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Review #431: In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”

----Shannon L. Alder

Ruth Ware, an English author, has penned a gripping pot-boiler in her book, In a Dark, Dark Wood that unfolds the story of two friends meeting a decade after their friendship ended all of a sudden, when one friend decides to invite her estranged friend to her "hen" party before her wedding out of the blue. But why did she invited her after all those years of no communication between them?

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