All aboard…for murder?

Meg Langslow is only too pleased to join her grandfather on a cruise ship vacation dedicated to lectures on birds and other environmental topics. But Meg’s vacation quickly becomes a nightmare when the ship breaks down and needs repairs…in the Bermuda Triangle. Ahoy!

If that, plus nursing an injured tern back to health, isn’t enough, a woman has jumped ship—leaving behind a note that reveals alarming details about her fellow writing-retreat members who are still onboard—and Meg’s grandfather’s assistant, Trevor, is now missing too. Suspicions are flying all around. . . Soon it’s up to Meg to swab the decks and solve this killer case before more bodies are swept to shore.

The Langslow clan is on a cruise to Bermuda and even before they reach the Bermuda Triangle things go wrong. The ship stops dead in the water with the power totally out, the crew seems really hard to find especially the Captain and there was an apparent suicide. With no way to contact the shore and questions about the suicide, like was it murder?, Meg and her family are once again thrust into an investigation.

This was different than other entries, while Meg’s family is on board in all their eccentric glory Meg, her dad and Horace take a more involved, albeit surreptitious role in the investigation. As is typical in the series, the action takes places over a short time frame and we have several likely suspects for the murder, assuming it wasn’t actually suicide. Part of the solution I suspected, part I did not though things all got wrapped up nicely by the end. I am enjoying my reread of the series and suspect that when I get to the end later this year I may well start over at the beginning once again. The whole series is highly recommended. ~~ Stephanie L Bannon

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