Murder on the Golden Arrow by Magda Alexander

Apparently Kindle Unlimited has decided that I enjoyed one book about a privileged young lady solving murders in the early 1900s so it will recommend ALL of the series about privileged young ladies solving murders. This one is a little different in that the heroine is neither aristocracy nor an orphan but it follows much the same lines.

Kitty Worthington is a socialite and, though she has just finished a year in finishing school, she has little interest in marriage.  Her brother Ned has come to retrieve her as well as further some of her father's business interests but now they are on their way home. On the way, they encounter a woman, Rose Trevvyan, who is a part of Ned's past, one he'd rather not see again. Later, Kitty overhears the woman talking to her husband; Rose is planning on blackmailing Ned but her husband, Jack, is reluctant.

They, along with a motley crew of characters, board The Golden Arrow. Along the way, Rose gets very sick and falls dead, poisoned. Nearly everyone on the deck had a connection to Rose and almost everyone had the opportunity to get poison into her system. The police seem inclined to pin the murder on Ned but Kitty, an inveterate reader of Agatha Christie, has other ideas.

Going to be honest, some of these series are starting to run together in some ways but I did enjoy this book and am immediately going to return it and read the next in the series. 

Three and a half stars

This book came out September 21, 2021

Followed by Murder at Westminster

Borrowed as ebook from Kindle Unlimited

Opinions are my own