“Was it really possible she was dead?
But the alternative was not much better. Because if she wasn’t, the only other possibility – and suddenly I wasn’t sure if it was better or worse – was that I was going mad.”
There was a murder on the boat and Lo was determined to solve the mystery of who it was. Nobody knew anything about a murder besides her so she tried to figure out who lived in the cabin because she believed it was the women she had met. All the passengers were accounted for so it was unclear who it could have been. It turned out to be Bullmer and Anne’s bodies that were taken out of the sea.
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