Laura Lippman’s highly praised New York Times bestseller is back with an engrossing mystery about middle-aged widow and former private investigator Muriel Blossom, whose holiday on a river cruise in Paris turns into a deadly global mystery that only she can solve.
Playing the lottery is not Mrs. Blossom’s style. She is a dedicated grandmother, pragmatic, and skilled at blending in, all of which were useful when she worked as a private investigator for Tess Monaghan.
Everything, including Mrs. Blossom, changes when she discovers a winning ticket in a parking lot. She is adamant about seeing the world, even though it seems to be slipping past her at times.
However, Mrs. Blossom did not anticipate meeting Allan on her transatlantic flight when she reserved her cruise through France on the MS Solitaire. Since the death of her cherished husband, he is the first man to ignite something inside of her.
Furthermore, she did not anticipate that Allan would be discovered dead in Paris—a location he was not supposed to be in—24 hours later.
Mrs. Blossom is now unsure of whom to trust on board the ship, particularly because Danny, a mysterious newcomer, keeps showing up everywhere and is always there when anything goes wrong. He asserts that Allan assisted in the transportation of a valuable, stolen work of art, and he believes Mrs. Blossom is more knowledgeable than she admits about the artifact and Allan’s death.
As the cruise travels down the Seine, Mrs. Blossom’s inquiries only get more frequent.