Louise's Crossing

by Sarah R. Shaber

Overview

Government girl Louise Pearlie is thrilled to be posted to London, but her journey across the Atlantic proves to be anything but plain sailing…

February, 1944. Washington D.C. With the war entering its most dangerous phase, Louise Pearlie is thrilled to be reassigned to the London office of the OSS. But in order to take up her new post, she must make a perilous crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in the SS Amelia Earhart.

Accompanying her on the voyage to Liverpool are an eclectic group of passengers, including the aloof Blanche Bryant, whose husband, Eddie, died in mysterious circumstances on the ship’s voyage out to New York three months before. Most of the same crew and passengers are on the return voyage, and one question remains: was it really suicide?

When the body of one of the passengers is found on deck, it’s clear that German bombs and raging storms aren’t the only threats to Louise’s safety. Can she expose a brutal killer before the ship docks in England?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781448302031
Publisher:	Severn House Publishers
Publication date:	08/05/2022
Series:	The Louise Pearlie World War II Novels of Suspense , #7
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	591,890
File size:	729 KB

About the Author

Sarah R. Shaber is the author of the popular ‘Simon Shaw’ novels and the ‘Louise Pearlie’ historical mystery series. Sarah lives in North Carolina with her husband and children.

Editorial Reviews

03/11/2019

Set in February 1944, Shaber’s satisfying seventh WWII mystery (after 2016’s Louise’s Lies) finds Louise Pearlie, an employee of the Office of Strategic Services, on her way from Washington, D.C., to her new assignment in the London office, aboard the SS Amelia Earhart. Some of the other passengers have sailed on the ship before, among them a woman whose husband drowned on a trip three months earlier. Though it was ruled a suicide, shipboard gossips believe it was murder. When another passenger dies, Louise investigates and concludes that the two deaths may be related. The book’s main pleasure lies in the authentic details that depict Louise’s cultural, social, and physical world. Hardships such as food rationing are made real, as are the hazards of travel during the war, like U-boats. Shaber also addresses casual racism in the case of a “colored” stewardess, who expresses her desire to move to Britain to escape the segregation that exists in the U.S. This well researched novel provides insights above and beyond the crimes and their motives. Agent: Vicky Bijur, Vicky Bijur Literary. (May)

Publishers Weekly

'A cracking-good read, a geuinely suspenseful mystery set against a vividly realized WWII backdrop, laced with plenty of shipboard suspense.'

Booklist

'A cracking-good read, a geuinely suspenseful mystery set against a vividly realized WWII backdrop, laced with plenty of shipboard suspense.'

Booklist

'The book’s main pleasure lies in the authentic details that depict Louise’s cultural, social, and physical world … This well researched novel provides insights above and beyond the crimes and their motives.'Publishers Weekly

'A cracking-good read, a geuinely suspenseful mystery set against a vividly realized WWII backdrop, laced with plenty of shipboard suspense.'Booklist

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