I'm also counting this one for my 2025 Reading Challenge. The July theme is "beach read." Though it was nowhere near July when I read this in January, I was staying at a hotel with a beachfront view, so I'm giving myself a pass in terms of the calendar.
As I recently noted, I have been reading more murder mysteries lately. In addition to this, I've been through By a Spider's Thread, A Sudden Death in Cyprus, and Listen for the Lie, just in the last year. That may not sound like a lot, but given that it probably matches the number I've read in the entire previous decade before last year, it actually is quite an increase.
Murder on the Oceanic is the seventh in a series of set-on-fancy-luxury-liner mysteries. As I understand it, the husband-and-wife detectives carry through the series, but as with By a Spider's Thread, the stories themselves stand independently.
I found this one to be better written than A Sudden Death in Cyprus, and I very much enjoyed the constant tips of the hat to highfalutin turn-of-the-last-century morals, especially amongst the British characters. It's all the same oh-no-she-didn't shock and horror that I love about Downton Abbey. And really, with these books, it isn't so much about the plot as it is about the trappings, isn't it?
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