A Stranger on Board by Cameron Ward

 

Description from Goodreads:

"A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. A luxury superyacht. And a killer picking you off, one by one...

When ex-marine Sarah French joins a luxury superyacht as on-board security, she's excited to get her life - and career - back on track.

Surrounded by crystal waters, it seems like the perfect place to start over.

As they head into open water, though, tensions between the crew quickly build. And when someone goes missing, Sarah has a terrifying realisation.

One of them is a killer. All of them are suspects.

To protect the other passengers, Sarah needs to uncover the killer's identity, and return the boat safely to shore.

But there's a storm on the horizon - and not all of them will make it out alive..."

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I am really disappointed that this didn't deliver the thrills or excitement I was expecting but rather it was a slow burn that seemed to drag on and had me skipping large chunks to get to the action.

The premise is great; a different take on the locked-room genre where here we have a luxury superyacht needing to be delivered across the Atlantic but not long into the voyage, things start to go seriously wrong and then people start to disappear.  

The characters are an interesting and eclectic bunch who are well developed and whilst some of them are not particularly likeable, they all have their place within the story.  

My main problem with this book is that it promises so much but doesn't really deliver for the majority of it.  This is a book of thirds with the final third being where most of the action takes place with the first two thirds were, I presume, written to create tension and suspense but they ended up being rather boring for me.

Overall, I think this will work for people who like a book that doesn't jump up and hit you in the face but rather one that talks about it and threatens to do so without ever actually doing it!

Thank you to Penguin Michael Joseph UK and NetGalley for enabling me to read A Stranger on Board and to share my thoughts.

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