I found this book in the "passenger book exchange" area of the Emerald Princess. I am registering it in Bookcrossing and plan to leave it on the cruise ship for someone else to find and read!!

I have read a number of Peter Lovesey books and liked each of them. This is the best of all I've read by Lovesey. I found it on the Emerald Princess and have finished reading it. I will now leave it on the ship for someone else to find and read!

Here is a short excerpt of this book:

After Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat became a Victorian bestseller, rowing on the Thames was the great craze of 1889. When an elementary school teacher in training takes a midnight swim in the Thames and witnesses a body being dumped, Sergeant Cribbs and Constable Thackeray are called in to investigate.

Here are some comments from "experts" regarding this book:

A relaxed and easy-going book, complete with traditional mystery traditionally solved------New York Times

Lovely flavor of the time-----Scotsman

The most light-hearted, but by no means the least compelling, of Lovesey's books------Marcel Berline, The Times

I enjoyed this book very much. It is perfect for reading on a cruise ship. I recommend it! If you find this novel, I hope you enjoy it!! Good reading to you!!!