A review by staystitchy
The Stowaway by James S. Murray, Darren Wearmouth

3.0

I really wanted to like this book but the children murder scenes did me in. It was just real graphic but also left me lacking in the character development. The main character is a psychology professor at Columbia but she isn't able to use her own insights to solve the case. Maria Fontana is a panicked mom with zero depth. I wish the writers would have spent more time on at least her character and less time on the grisly depictions of children being murdered. I also felt like this one was just a complete copy and paste of many other thrillers without anything real to make it stand out.

Maria Fontana was the deciding vote on a jury that set an alleged serial killer free. Now, she and her family are taking a vacation on a two week transatlantic cruise. When passengers are discovered brutally murdered in a similar way to the same serial killer from her trial, the ship goes on lockdown. Is it a copycat or is it the same guy?