This was an enjoyable suspense book. I frequently look for Lee Hanson books because it has the suspense, murder, legal components that satisfy my reading pleasure. Very well written and a fast read. ( )

This was an enjoyable suspense book. I frequently look for Lee Hanson books because it has the suspense, murder, legal components that satisfy my reading pleasure. Very well written and a fast read. ( )

Julie O’Hara has written a book about reading body language and her publisher has kept her busy promoting it. She’s currently on the cruise ship Mystral, along with her boyfriend, PI Joe Garrett, to give a seminar, book signing and an interview before getting to relax for the rest of the trip. One of the women she meets, a well-known travel agent who books this trip often for her clients, comes up missing and Joe is the last person known to see her.

Both Joe and Julie offer their expertise in discovering what happened. Plenty of suspects with good motives are uncovered, but the mystery needs to be solved before the cruise ends and the suspects all go on their way.

What’s really cool about Julie is that she is a body language expert and we’re constantly given lessons on that art as she interprets different things for us when speaking to someone or just observing. And there is plenty to observe. Many individual stories are uncovered and we get some insight as to the workings on a cruise ship.

I was sucked into the story from the start and read it in one sitting. A great job on the characters, the setting and the mystery. ( )