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Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
1939. Lily Shepherd boards an ocean liner in Essex, bound for Australia. She is ready to start anew, leaving behind the shadows in her past. Nights provide live music, cocktails, and fancy dress balls; days include stops at exotic locations. Lily allows herself to hope for a future with a man who seems to return her feelings. But Lily is not the only one hiding secrets, and as the glamour of the voyage fades, the stage is set for something sinister...
42) Mallory on board
Author
Series
Mallory McDonald books volume 7
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Despite her fears of being a "third wheel," Mallory goes on a cruise for the wedding of the mother and father of her two best friends.
43) Death sets sail
Author
Series
Murder most unladylike volume 10
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Daisy and Hazel leap into action when a murder is committed on their cruise along the River Nile in Egypt.
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Language
English
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""Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half-brother, Paul, scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: "Why don't you swallow broken glass." Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis,...
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Language
English
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"Nightclub singer Lena Aldridge had planned to jump ship before her past caught up with her--only to find a killer has followed her onboard the Queen Mary in this thrilling locked-room mystery. London 1936. Lena Aldridge is wondering 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 dumped her. But Lena has always...
Author
Series
Spy school volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
While on a mission aboard the The Emperor of the Seas, Ben Ripley faces off against his arch enemy, Murray Hill, on the high seas and quickly finds himself in hot water as things take a dangerous turn.
48) Shell game
Author
Series
Kingdom keepers. Original series volume 5
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The Kingdom Keepers have their hands full when, during the inaugural cruise of the Disney ship, Fantasy, to exotic locations, they discover that the Overtakers have infiltrated the cast, stolen a journal that belonged to Walt Disney himself, and plan to unleash a powerful evil, the Chernabog.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Eagerly accepting a security detail job on a luxurious Alaskan cruise to protect a famed mystery writer, Savannah Reid tackles a particularly dramatic case when her charge inexplicably flees the ship and is killed in a suspicious accident.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance's gripping new thriller, Man Overboard, two tech geniuses face off--one intent on saving lives, the other on ending them. Cybersecurity expert Roger McGeary finally has his life back on track after years of struggling with depression. But when he falls from the balcony of his suite on an all-expenses-paid cruise, the police quickly dismiss it as "death by misadventure," a vague phrase leaving much to...
53) The power trip
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
In "The power trip" you'll meet Aleksandr Kasianenko, a billionaire Russian oligarch, as he set sail on the Bianca. You'll meet his sexy supermodel girlfriend, whom the Bianca is named after, and five, dynamic, powerful, and famous couples invited on the yacht's maiden voyage. Hammond Patterson, a driven Senator and his lovely but unhappy wife, Sierra; Cliff, a charming, never-married movie star and his ex-waitress girlfriend, Lori; Taye Sherwin,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A harrowing narrative of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-understood stowaway-Covid-19-days before the world shut down in March, 2020. In early 2020, the world was on edge. An ominous virus was spreading on different continents, and no one knew what the coming weeks would bring. Far from the hotspots, the cruise ship Zaandam, owned by Holland America, was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires, Argentina,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Annie Darling's murder mystery cruise in the waters off her not-always-idyllic isle of Broward's Rock is going swimmingly — until one of the revelers plunges overboard. And despite hubby Max's courageous rescue attempt, faux murder turns all too quickly into real-life death. As the body count rises over the next few days, the popular proprietress of the Death on Demand bookstore begins to suspect that all the victims were murdered most foully,
...Author
Series
Regan Reilly mysteries volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Ainsley's divorced mother is the director on a summer fairy tale (definitely not Disney) cruise, and nearly-thirteen-year-old Ainsley is annoyed that she is expected to spend her summer vacation helping out in hundred different ways, without much in the way of free time to chat up the cute boy playing the "Pig King"--then once the ship actually sets sail things start to go wrong, and Ainsley begins to wonder whether this fairy tale is cursed.
58) All summer long
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Tia's dream job of captaining a dining cruise hits rough water when her ex Jake is hired as the restaurant's chef. Will they be able to open a new business, navigate the sea, and each other?
59) Love at sea
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Event planner Olivia gets a game-changing opportunity to organize a major event on a luxury Caribbean cruise, hosted by her best friend, cooking and wellness star, Alexandra. Olivia meets her match in the charming Tony, who is on a trial run as Cruise Director, but they must work together to make the cruise go off without a hitch, for the sake of their careers and friendships.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 17
Publisher
Obsidian Mystery
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Of all the things that make Adrian Monk uneasy, change ranks high on the list. So when Natalie completes her P.I. license--and technically becomes Monk's boss--it's not easy for him to accept. Nor can he accept Natalie attending a business seminar at sea without him, even if it means spending a week with her on a cruise ship. Between choppy waters and obnoxious kids, Monk finds himself in a perfect storm of anxiety. Luckily, Mariah, the cruise director,...
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