Loose Lips

Knives Out meets high seas intrigue on a literarycruise to nowhere in this intelligent, wildly funny locked room mystery for fans of Richard Osman, Anthony Horowitz, Nita Prose, and Agatha Christie! The USA Today bestselling host of the "All About Agatha" podcast injects the spark and fizz of a Golden Age murder mystery into the present-day, asthe ghostwriters skills are put to the test aboard a bestselling authorsdecidedly insalubrious cruise.Those who can, do. Those who cant, teach.So goes the adage, but sometimes, even a first-rate ghostwriter and successful mystery author needs to make a buck. Even if that means setting foot on a cruise ship, something she vowed shed never do. To top it off, the Get Lit Cruise is being organized by Payton Garrett, a very popular, bestselling authorand the ghostwriters long-time frenemy from back in their MFA days.Over the years, Payton has reinvented herself. She gained a wife while ditching her journalist husbandwho is also on board. And shes acquired a rabid following who eagerly snapped up the invitations sent to a select few of her newsletter subscribers. The guests, all female, will receive personalized instruction from experts in five different writing genres, while basking in Paytons reflected glow.Between mentoring guests, flirting with Paytons ex, and taking bets on how long before someone performs a reenactment of Titanics Im flying! scene (answer: not long enough), theres plenty to keep a ghostwriter occupied. But theres one activity nobody expected: solving a murder.When an attendee is found dead under suspicious circumstances and several others suffer symptoms of poisoning, there are numerous motives and suspects to choose from. But could it be that the victim wasnt even the intended target? As the body count rises along with onboard tensions, no one is safeexcept, perhaps, for a killer whose scruples have long abandoned ship. And of course, like every well-plotted mystery, this one has an extra twist . . .