Who doesn't like a restful, yet fun, traveling experience at sea?
Thank you to both Judith and BB for providing us with this great list of Mystery Books that Take Place on Cruise Ships.
This Cozy Mystery Cruise Ship Theme includes mystery books that take place at sea:
Conrad Allen (aka Edward Marston & Keith Miles)
Dillman Mystery Series
Murder on the Lusitania
Murder on the Mauretania
Murder on the Minnesota
Murder on the Caronia
Murder on the Marmora
Murder on the Salsette
Murder on the Oceanic
Murder on the Celtic
Steve Allen
Steve Allen Mystery Series
Murder on the Atlantic
Marian Babson
Death Sails at Midnight
Cruise of a Deathtime
Donald Bain & "Jessica Fletcher"
Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series
Murder on the QE2
Panning for Murder
The Queen's Jewels
K. K. Beck
Iris Cooper & Jack Clancy Mystery Series
Death in a Deck Chair
Mike Befeler
Paul Jacobson Geezer-Lit Mystery Series
Cruising in Your Eighties Is Murder
J.S. Borthwick
Deane & McKenzie Mystery Series
Bodies of Water AND My Body Lies over the Ocean
Candy Calvert
Darcy Cavanaugh Cruise Mystery Series
Dressed to Keel
Aye Do or Die
Mai Tai to Murder
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot Mystery Series
Death on the Nile
Carol Higgins Clark
Regan Reilly Mystery Series
Decked
Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark
Santa Cruise
Susan Rogers Cooper
Milt Kovak Mystery Series
Dark Waters
Susan Rogers Cooper
E. J. Pugh Mystery Series
Don’t Drink the Water
Mary Daheim
Hillside Manor Bed & Breakfast Mystery Series
Dead Man Docking
William Doonan
Henry Grave Msytery Series
Grave Passage
Mediterranean Grave
Grave Indulgence
Carola Dunn
Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series
To Davy Jones Below
"Jessica Fletcher" & Donald Bain
Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series
Murder on the QE2
Shelley Freydont
Lindy Haggerty Mystery Series
High Seas Murder
Kerry Greenwood
Phrynne Fisher Mystery Series
Death by Water
Carolyn Hart
Death on Demand Mystery Series
Murder Walks the Plank
Carolyn Hart
Henrie O Mystery Series
Set Sail for Murder
Maria Hudgins
Dotsy Lamb Travel Mystery Series
Death on the Aegean Queen
Maddy Hunter
Passport to Peril Mystery Series
Hula Done It?
J. A. Jance
J. P. Beaumont Mystery Series
Birds of Prey
RT Jordan
Polly Pepper Mystery Series
Set Sail for Murder
Sharon Kahn
Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife Mystery Series
Don't Cry for Me, Hot Pastrami
Mary Kruger
Gilded Age Mystery Series
No Honeymoon for Death
Laura Levine
Jaine Austen Mystery Series
Killer Cruise
Liz Lipperman
Clueless Cook Mystery Series
Murder for the Halibut
Marie Moore
Sydney March Mystery Series
Shore Excursion
Joanne Pence
Angie Amalfi Mystery Series
Cooks Overboard
Elizabeth Daniels Squire
Peaches Dann Mystery Series
Where’s There’s a Will
Susan Sussman & Sarajane Avidon
Cruising for Murder
Stella Whitelaw
Casey Jones Mystery Series
Second Sitting
Dead Slow Ahead
A Wide Berth
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Hi! I have another one:
Murder on the QE2 (Murder, She Wrote, #9) by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain
I enjoyed the story very much.
Thank you, Chelsea. I have added it to the list.
You are welcome! This is a great list so far.
Kerry Greenwood
Phrynne Fisher series
Death by Water
Thank you, PlumGaga. I’ll go add this book to the Cruise Ship theme.
Laura Levine Jaine Austen series “Killer Cruise”.
Thanks, Betty. I’m on my way to add this series to the Cruise Ship list.
I’m currently reading ‘Murder for the Halibut’ by Liz Lipperman. The setting is on a Caribbean cruise ship, Carnation Queen.
Thank you, MJ. I will be adding her as soon as I can get into the editing page. Who knew there are so many Cruise Ship theme mystery books?!
Thanks so much for adding this theme. I can’t wait to read this amazing books.
Janean, I bet you didn’t know you would have this many Cruise Ship mystery books in your near future! (I certainly didn’t.) Aren’t these Cozy Mystery readers great?!?
Sorry to be a dissenting voice, but Agatha Christie’s “Carribean Mystery” does NOT take place on a cruise ship. There’s not even a cruise ship mentioned.
All the action happens at a hotel and on their beach. She came there by air (before the books starts) and leaves by air as well (the book ends with her saying goodbye at the airstrip).
You’re so right, Deahna. You would think I could have remembered that plot!
Here’s another one:
The Queen’s Jewels (Murder, She Wrote) by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain.
And at least starting out on a cruise ship is Panning for Murder, same series, same author.
Thank you, Deahna! I’m off to add both of those books to the list.
What a fun list! Thanks for sharing.
Welcome to the Cozy Mystery site, Brooke B!
I guess I’m blowing my own horn here, but I have “Deep Blue Murder” an ebook, takes place on a Caribbean cruise.
Have just checked my kindle and found two more:
Chris Mcauley: Love and Murder on the Queen Anne (Rex Mathers Mysteries)
Carola Dunn: To Davy Jones Below (Daisy Dalrymple Mystery)
Thank you, Deahna!
Well, I was looking up something else and discovered Danna’s description for Marie Moore:
Moore, an ex-science teacher as well as a writer and managing editor of a newspaper, also owned her own travel agency. She writes the Sydney March Mystery Series, which features a travel agent. Moore has a lot of first-hand experience in the travel agency field, including guiding tour excursions, and going on many, many cruises.
BB, thank you for telling us about yet another Cruise Ship mystery book.
Danna, I’ll wager a bet that quite a few people living on the East Coast would dearly love to be going on a cruise about now, what with the blizzard. Those people sure have had a rough time weather wise for the last several months. Mother Nature sure has a weird way of reminding all of us that we aren’t as in charge as we think we are. Maybe She wants to remind us that we are at her mercy at all times. Here’s hoping that any who frequent this forum of yours are safe and are riding the storm.
Linda, as nice as being on a cruise in lieu of hunkering down for a blizzard, I would probably find myself worrying about my house the entire time I was out at sea. She sure is in charge!
This sure was a very timely topic what with those people being stranded on that cruise ship last week. I can’t understand why it took so long for whoever was in charge of bringing that ship to port to do that!! Why couldn’t another ship or say maybe the Coast Guard been sent out to get those people off the ship?? Reminds me sort of when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and all those people were left stranded in the Super Dome for so long. Doesn’t make sense to me!!
Linda C, or how about how when Hurricane Katrina hit and all of those school buses were just parked in their lots?
Another book that takes place on a cruise ship is J. A. Jance’s Birds of Prey. My husband and I enjoyed the audio version of this story where, J. P. Beaumont accompanies his grandmother and her new husband on their honeymoon cruise to Alaska.
Thanks, Merry, I just added Birds of Prey to the cruise ship mystery theme.
While on a cruise recently I checked a book out of the library about some people connected with an art gallery all being invited on a Caribbean cruise. People disappear. I didn’t get to finish the book before the cruise ended (actually the book disappeared from my stateroom?????…another mystery) and I never did recall the author, nor do I remember the exact title but I think it was “Murder By Knots”. Can anyone help me with this?
Florence, take a look at Nancy Cohen’s Killer Knots. This might just be the mystery book you are looking for.
As for your other mystery – can’t help you with that!
Here’s the description for Murder on the Cruise Ship by V. Hurst (could this be it?):
This book is a sequel to “Murder at the JC” by the same author. Our story begins with the theft of three famous paintings from the Louvre Museum in Paris. At about the same time the book’s main characters, the Bryans and the Flannerys, fly from Houston to Barcelona to board ‘The Northern Lights’ for their Mediterranean cruise. They befriend a young couple, the Adams, who soon disappear from the ship and are assumed dead. Our foursome spend the rest of their voyage attempting to solve the mystery of the Adams’ disappearance. Later developments back in Houston link this mystery with the theft of the three paintings. Working with the FBI, they eventually apprehend the killer and recover the paintings.
Love your site! I hope you’ll add Deadly Reunion, the latest book in my Cealie Gunther series.
Thank you for telling us about your Cealie Gunther series, June Shaw!