The Woman in Cabin 10: Ruth Ware

This was a really interesting book where you are tore between if the character is imagining things or if something terrible has really happened. I loved the juxtaposition of letters in the future saying Lo never gets home and the present day time of her on the ship. The story is about a girl who takes antidepressants and drinks a lot. She is a journalist chosen to go on a private cruise with a wealthy person the magazine is trying to get as a sponsor. a couple days before she is supposed to leave her flat is broken into and her purse is stolen. It seems like an unrelated incident, but someone else on the bot was also robbed and did not attend the trip because their passport was stolen. You are left to wonder if her break in was something more, but it isn't mentioned again. Right before boarding the boat she has an argument with her boyfriend because she is stressed and sleep deprived. The fight just adds to her stress and at first she is unable to sleep on the boat and begins drinking in hopes it will knock her out. She is a bit of an unreliable narrator as she puts her keys in her purse when leaving her room, but pulls them out of her bra when coming back. She spend the first day on the ship drunk and her story about the girl thrown off the ship gets altered, she never mentioned hearing screams until half way through the book. Halfway through the first night she is awakened by the sound of a door opening and a splash. She believes a body was thrown over board and us trying to figure out who the person was and what happened for the rest of the book. Evidently everyone on board is accounted for and the crew thinks she is a crazy woman. However, she keeps getting messages to stop digging. Towards the end of the trip, again in the middle of the night, there is a knock on her door and it is the girl she thought was murdered. The book then takes a very serious turn as she fights to survive.