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The Gilded Wren Mysteries · Book four

Some Restrictions Apply


The Gilded Wren has stopped dead in calm Caribbean water. The engines are down, the air-conditioning is off, and somehow the passengers are having the best day of the voyage.

Then Mr Halloran’s forty-year-old radio — the set that brought the stranded ship its nine o’clock news — vanishes from a shelf on Deck Ten.

Nobody can leave. Suspicion spreads cabin by cabin, and Article 9 gives Peggy just enough authority to start hearing claims: six hundred and eight possible suspects, a ship full of complaints, and three days of it.

The claims are petty. The witnesses are sincere. The ship is still falling apart.

And somewhere aboard, one passenger knows exactly where the radio went.

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