Her laughing eyes were white and bloated with salt water; her pale skin was wrinkled; her clothes ripped by jagged rocks and disintegrating into rags.

In my dream, the girl was drifting, far, far below the crashing waves and the cries of the gulls, in the cold, sun-less depths of the North Sea. Her laughing eyes were white and bloated with salt water, her pale …

Ruth Ware (b. 1977) grew up in Lewes, in East Sussex. After graduating from Manchester University she moved to Paris, before settling in north London. She has worked as a waitress, a bookseller, a …

In Chapters 29 and 30 of "The Woman in Cabin 10," Laura finds herself trapped in a cabin, struggling with despair and intense hunger after being abandoned by her captor, Carrie.

detective Hercule Poirot solving a murder case aboard a luxury train. Patricia Highsmith’s 1950 psychological thriller, Strangers on a Train, features two train passengers whose lives become …

When Lo first enters the ship, she says, "I had a sudden disorienting image of the Aurora as a ship imprisoned in a bottle—tiny, perfect, isolated, and unreal" (p. 37). In what ways does this statement …

From New York Times bestselling author of the “twisty-mystery” (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware - this …