Miss Aldridge Regrets
Book Feature - Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare
HBL Note: Louise Hare is already an acclaimed British novelist, but MISS ALDRIDGE REGRETS is her US debut (and we love debut novelists around here!) The synopsis gives me Death on the Nile vibes. It is about a British Jazz singer who gets a big break to sing on Broadway in NYC. She boards the Queen Mary in 1936 but while at sea, members of a wealthy American family begin to drop dead. If you’re a fan of Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith, then you’ll be happy to know Louise Hare was inspired by these two authors to write MISS ALDRiDGE REGRETS, which is the first in Louise Hare’s new series. Scroll down to read more.
"Would make Agatha Christie proud... Irresistible and smart." —Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia Palace
Book Feature - Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare
From the publisher:
London, 1936. Lena Aldridge wonders if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn’t worked out. Instead, she’s stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in Soho, and her married lover has just left her. But Lena has always had a complicated life, one shrouded in mystery as a mixed-race girl passing for white in a city unforgiving of her true racial heritage.
She’s feeling utterly hopeless 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. After a murder at the club, the timing couldn’t be better, and Lena jumps at the chance to escape England. But death follows her onboard when an obscenely wealthy family draws her into their fold just as one among them is killed in a chillingly familiar way. As Lena navigates the Abernathy’s increasingly bizarre family dynamic, she realizes that her greatest performance won't be for an audience, but for her life.
With seductive glamor, simmering family drama, and dizzying twists, Louise Hare makes her beguiling US debut.
