One for the Ruth Ware fans.
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Ruth Ware is currently a very popular author in the crime fiction genre. Her best-seller The Woman in Cabin 10, first published in 2016, has recently been made into a (albeit critically trounced!) movie starring Keira Knightley.
The Woman in Suite 11 is a sequel to that original book starring protagonist Lo Blacklock. After taking time away to have children, Blacklock has returned to picking up work as a travel journalist. She is invited to the opening of the Hotel du Lac in Switzerland, and is excited to be back in the game. But once she gets to the hotel she keeps running into people she last saw on the ill-fated cruise from 10 years ago, and her suspicions start rising. The plot slowly develops from there.
Mind you, when I say, ‘slowly develops,’ it takes till about chapter 10 for anything to really start happening, and even then it’s unclear what the inciting incident is, or if there even is one. In terms of plotting it would seem that reading the previous book helps to unravel who is who and what is what. It’s not impossible to come to this fresh, but it takes some sorting.
Blacklock herself is a standard contemporary female heroine: likeable enough, but fairly two-dimensional. The book is written in first-person, which makes for some interesting issues in terms of her being a travel journalist. No travel writer with any chops is going to write things like ‘wow what a stunning place, like a fairy-tale castle,’ or gush over posh macarons like a 15-year-old on a school trip.
However, the slightly exotic setting, the familiar characters, and the easy-reading level, will ensure this is another seller for Ware, who has a solid fan-base.
Reviewed by Tracey Korsten
The views expressed in this review belong to the author and not Glam Adelaide, its affiliates, or employees.
Distributed by: Simon & Schuster
Released: September 2025
RRP: $34.99
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