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

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The opulence of the setting, the fashion and Lena’s new wardrobe are dazzling and so perfectly in tune with the time period. It was difficult to absorb yourself in the narrative and I soon got to the stage where I didn’t really care. Once on board the Queen Mary in first class, Charlie manages to secure a place at the dinner table of a very wealthy family.

Lena Aldridge is a singer in a seedy London jazz club where the owner has just been murdered right under her nose and said club owner just happens to be the husband of her best friend Maggie.I must admit I doubted that, as a witness to a sudden death, she would be allowed to travel abroad but, that was just my first concern with the plot and I was, at least at first, willing to go with it. It’s such an exciting, riveting historical fiction meets thriller- whodunnit mystery that fully enjoyed and devoured in one sit that I highly recommend! It took a little for me to warm up to the story line, but as secrets unfold, you will quickly be turning the pages and enjoying the hustle and bustle. There are scenes where the atmosphere is both strange and strained with a lot of subtext to spot and plenty of uncomfortable machinations especially as we get further to New York. I liked having a mixed race white passing protagonist in a mystery set in the 1930s, but that’s where it ends.

More than that, someone is not happy with Lena‘s presence and various scenarios occur that make her life very difficult and it is questionable whether she will even make it to Broadway. Small and brown, the bottle looked ordinary, but its contents were lethal, and I welcomed its demise, the bottle destined to sink until it came to rest on the floor of the English Channel. It reminded me of those boorish upper-class men I'd spent too much time with recently, spouting their fake Cockney slang and frequenting the Soho nightclubs, splashing their cash on cheap gin for good-looking girls. 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. After a murder at the club, the timing couldn't be better and Lena jumps at the chance to escape England.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. The book is split into two different periods, the ship crossing and 2 weeks previously and the lead up to the murder. Lena has an interesting background, being a mixed-race woman who passes as white – something she is informed will be important to hide in the more colour conscious United States.