The Woman in Cabin 10
- 352
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 35 weeks on the list, peaked at #3
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Our view
“The Woman in Cabin 10” is an easy, suspenseful read whose premise, a crime at sea that nobody else believes in, does much of the work. A travel journalist on a small luxury cruise sees a woman go overboard, yet no passenger is missing. Some readers lose patience with the unreliable narrator; others find the supporting cast thin and the culprit too easy to spot.
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About the book
Travel magazine writer Lo Blacklock has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: one week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the elite guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo’s voyage is perfect, with a plush cabin, elegant dinner parties, and plenty of relaxation. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for—and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo’s desperate attempts to convey that something has gone terribly, terribly wrong… With surprising twists, spine-tingling turns, and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it is eerily beautiful, Ruth Ware offers up a taut and intense read in The Woman in Cabin 10—proving, once again, her place as “the Agatha Christie of [her] generation” (The Washington Post).
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.9 across 530 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 78% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.2 | 5 | 1% |
| Hardcover | 6.9 | 525 | 99% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Woman in Cabin 10?
It has 352 pages — shorter than 74% of the ranked books in Thriller.
In this book
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