Trixie Troublefield-Baxter lives on a cruise ship, teaching art classes, writing a travel blog, and solving the odd murder with her husband Ransom, the head of security.
Their Baltic capitals itinerary turns deadly once the Velvet Viking Book Club takes over the Emerald Queen of the Seas: fifty women in velvet capes and Viking costumes, hooked on steamy Norse romances and ruled by a tyrannical founder.
After a killing at the bon voyage party, she is left with a roster of suspects, a flirtatious ghost who claims to be a legendary Viking warrior, and women whose shield-maiden act includes a real blade.
Medieval fortresses and Swedish pastry shops slide past while she hunts for a murderer hiding among perfectly helpful readers.
She has to name the killer among those devoted club members if this Scandinavian crossing is going to end with only one body.
