The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware
on July 17, 2025
Genres: Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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When the invitation to attend the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel—owned by reclusive billionaire Marcus Leidmann, arrives, it’s like the answer to a prayer. Three years after the birth of her youngest child, Lo Blacklock is ready to reestablish her journalism career, but post-pandemic travel journalism is a very different landscape from the one she left ten years ago. The chateau on the shores of Lake Geneva is everything Lo’s ever dreamed of, and she hopes she can snag an interview with Marcus. Unfortunately, he proves to be even more difficult to pin down than his reputation suggests. When Lo gets a late-night call asking her to come to Marcus’s hotel room, she agrees despite her own misgivings. She’s greeted, however, by a woman claiming to be Marcus’s mistress, and in life-or-death jeopardy.
This is the follow up to The Woman in Cabin 10, only 10 years later. It has been a long time since I read the first novel so I was a little worried I would not catch on as well, but it didn’t slow the read down at all. All said and done, despite a slow-boiling start and a flair for the dramatic, I loved this one *almost* as much as I hoped I would before diving in. You see, with plenty of cat-and-mouse antics and a whole host of possible mind games, I never knew when the next shoe was going to drop and shock me but good. That being said, it didn’t quite live up to the first book in the series. So while it oozed with rising dread and had me side-eyeing almost every character in turn, it certainly wasn’t my favorite book by this author. Still…If you’re looking for a one-sitting read filled with adrenaline-fueled hijinks, certainly give it a try. I loved it, and I hope you will as well.
I rated this novel four stars. While it might be possible to read this book without reminding yourself of what happened the last time around, I personally wouldn’t recommend it as you’ll have to fight to recall what happened when. So, if it’s been years since you met Lo and the rest of the crew, you might want to, at the very least, find a comprehensive summary complete with some spoilers. After all, while this story diverged quite a bit from the first book in the series, it also leaned somewhat heavily on bygone events so you might be a little bit lost between the returning characters and the barely-there recollections of past of scenes.
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