My Body Lies over the Ocean Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

My Body Lies over the Ocean Book

The heart, style, and intended readership of J.S. Borthwick's latest mystery romp involving Sarah Deane--a teaching fellow and doctoral candidate at Bowmouth College in Maine--and her physician husband, Alex McKenzie, is crystallized with this little exchange: "I think," said Julia, standing up and gathering her handbag to her breast, "that we can give Deedee and Richard a miss. Who in God's name wants to hear all the ghastly details about people being chopped up with cutlasses and clinging to rafts?" Alex smiled down at Julia. "You'd rather read Dick Francis describing maimed horses and mutilated jockeys? Or," he added with a side glance at Sarah, who was a fan of Brother Cadfael and his felonious associates in 13th-century Shrewsbury, "entertain yourself with poisoned yeomen and decapitated monks?" Sarah and Alex are sailing home from Europe with Sarah's elderly but feisty Aunt Julia, and the supposed subject of their conversation is whether to attend a shipboard lecture on pirates. But what Borthwick is really doing is placing her readers in familiar territory--that comfortable country where Dick Francis and Ellis Peters meet Agatha Christie for tea. In this country, anyone who gets on board a brand new ocean liner (in this case, the Queen Victoria) knows that the shipboard activities will include murder, as well as shuffleboard, and that Sarah and Alex will clear things up long before the ship docks in New York. One reader's déjà vu is another's homage, and Borthwick writes with verve and grace--as witnessed by the popularity of past titles such as The Bridled Groom, The Case of the Hook-Billed Kites, Dolly Is Dead, The Down East Murders, Dude on Arrival, The Garden Plot, and The Student Body. --Dick Adler Read More

from£N/A | RRP: £14.89
* Excludes Voucher Code Discount Also available Used from £N/A
  • Product Description

    The Queen Victoria, Britain's fabulously extravagant new ocean liner, is making her maiden voyage from England to New York. Sarah Deane, English teacher-cum-amateur sleuth, her husband, Dr. Alex McKenzie, and Sarah's feisty aunt, Julia, are looking forward to the calming sea and salt air. But not all of the passengers are lucky enough to make it abroad; A senior member of the British-American trade commission is run down outside of his hotel room just hours before the Vicky leaves Southampton. Then Another member mysteriously turns up dead in his stateroom.

    Are the deaths coincidental accidents or are sinister plots afloat? Sarah's sleuthing proceeds full speed ahead as she sizes up a throng of eccentric passengers and quirky crew members. But the appearance of a strange nighttime intruder in Sarah and Alex's cabin raises the question; Is Sarah in too deep or can she catch a killer before it's too late?

    In her ninth cozy mystery, J.S. Borthwick proves once again that her books are "more fun than a barrel of clams at high tide" (Rockland [Maine] Courier-Gazette).

  • 0312199910
  • 9780312199913
  • J.S. Borthwick
  • 1 February 1999
  • Saint Martin's Press Inc.
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 296
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. If you click through any of the links below and make a purchase we may earn a small commission (at no extra cost to you). Click here to learn more.

Would you like your name to appear with the review?

We will post your book review within a day or so as long as it meets our guidelines and terms and conditions. All reviews submitted become the licensed property of www.find-book.co.uk as written in our terms and conditions. None of your personal details will be passed on to any other third party.

All form fields are required.