The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

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This book creates a suspenseful, eerie setting very well, and had me intrigued to keep reading, but the characters are kind of annoying and nothing really stood out about it in the end. The story is about a woman named Laura (goes by Lo) who is a journalist and has recently experienced a breakin in her apartment. She has some PTSD from that experience, but decides to go on this luxury cruise assigned from her work in hopes of a promotion. This is a very small cruise ship - only 10 cabins, and she's given cabin #9. The lady in cabin #10 let her borrow a mascara on the first day, but she's never seen again. Lo believes she heard her body fall on the first night, but couldn't get anyone to believe her, because everyone says cabin #10 has always been vacant. She starts wondering if she's crazy or not.

Spoiler Alert!!

Lo starts looking for answers on her own and is warned by someone who leaves her threatening messages to leave it alone, which only made Lo want to pursue it more. Miraculously, the woman that was in cabin #10 reappears and lures Lo into one of the lower decks and locks her there. Lo tries to relate to her in hopes of getting out, by convincing her to get out herself as she claims to be directed by some man. Eventually the lady warms up to her and Lo finds out her name is Carrie, the mistress of the owner of the boat, Lord Richard Bullmer. Richard Bullmer had snuck Carrie on board and had Carrie's help to dispose his wife's body. He killed his wife to inherit her large fortune. Lo convinces Carrie to let her go. Carrie softens and Lo escapes the boat in the Norwegian fjords. She's eventually rescued and reunited with her boyfriend. Police reports the discovery of two bodies from the sea, one is Lord Richard Bullmer with a bullet in the head, the other is a young woman with a shaved head. The police initially believed Lord Richard Bullmer killed himself, but upon further investigation, it was ruled a homicide. Lo believed the other body belonged to Carrie, until she received a large fortune in her bank account with the message, "Tiggers Bounce", referring to the character Tigger from Winnie-the-Pooh, one of the books Carrie gave Lo to read when she was locked up in the lower decks of the ship. It's also a reference to Carrie's survival, by bouncing back from a terrible situation.

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