Mostly Murders

Mary turned so Colette could complete the buttons. Once this was done, Mary said what Colette already knew. “This changes everything.”

Perhaps the most famous ship in history, the story of the Titanic is fascinating on its own. Add a heist, a love story, several historical figures and a treasure trove of facts and details and you have Maiden Voyage, an extremely well-researched and entertaining novel that was an absolute pleasure to read.

Brimming with details, this novel will transport you back to 1912 and the ill-fated voyage of the Titanic, from its triumphant departure from Southampton on April 10th, to its last, tragic moments in the ice-filled North Atlantic Ocean on April 15th.

But Maiden Voyage is so much more than just the story of a ship. The novel takes the story of the “unsinkable” Titanic and turns it into a setting for a thrilling crime caper featuring Mary Carr, the Queen of the Forty Elephants, an all-female gang of pickpockets, thieves and criminals who operated in London from the late 1800s to sometime in the early/mid 1900s.

Working against Mary and her two accomplices, Samantha and Colette, is Harry Worth, a young Pinkerton detective tasked with preventing crime onboard the Titanic. As the four of them cross paths, a complicated game of lies, deception and fragile young love is played out over the course of a few days, while the ship sails ever closer to its inevitable doom.

Many thanks to Stephanie from paste creative for the free copy of Maiden Voyage. I highly recommend this to anyone who likes historical fiction, and to readers with an interest in the Titanic and/or the Forty Elephants and Mary Carr.

Historical fiction – Titanic