{"id":294,"date":"2008-12-29T23:35:03","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T03:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/29\/review-of-santa-cruise-by-mary-higgins-clark-and-carol-higgins-clark\/"},"modified":"2009-02-07T23:39:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T03:39:52","slug":"review-of-santa-cruise-by-mary-higgins-clark-and-carol-higgins-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Review of Santa Cruise, by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image336\" height=\"159\" alt=\"santa_cruise.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/santa_cruise.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Santa Cruise<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A Holiday Mystery at Sea<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark<\/p>\n<p>Simon &#038; Schuster\/ Scribner, 2006.\u00a0 261 pages.<\/p>\n<p>I have enjoyed some of Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark&#8217;s earlier Christmas mysteries.\u00a0 So I picked up this Holiday Mystery for some fun Christmas reading.<\/p>\n<p>To start up his new cruise ship, Commodore Randolph Weed launches the &#8220;Santa Cruise&#8221; &#8212; a free trip for people who have done good in the world.\u00a0 He even includes ten department-store Santas to cheer the crowd while enjoying the cruise.\u00a0 Alvirah Meehan and her husband Willy are among the honorees, and Alvirah invites her friend, private detective Regan Reilly and her husband Jack, as well as Regan&#8217;s parents, Nora and Luke.<\/p>\n<p>What the Commodore doesn&#8217;t know is that his nephew Eric is using the cruise to make some money on the side.\u00a0 Eric has agreed to take two convicted felons on board and drop them off on an island in the Caribbean without an extradition treaty.<\/p>\n<p>Right from the start, Eric&#8217;s plans get thrown off.\u00a0 He has to give his large room to Alvirah and her husband, so the felons don&#8217;t have a convenient place to hide.\u00a0 Good thing there are lots of Santa suits available.<\/p>\n<p><em>Santa Cruise <\/em>has lots of coincidences and never really works up to much feeling of suspense, but it does provide some light-hearted fun in a holiday setting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/141653802X\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/santa_cruise.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/santa_cruise.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Cruise A Holiday Mystery at Sea by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark Simon &#038; Schuster\/ Scribner, 2006.\u00a0 261 pages. I have enjoyed some of Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark&#8217;s earlier Christmas mysteries.\u00a0 So I picked up this Holiday Mystery for some fun Christmas reading. To start up his new cruise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-fiction-review","category-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}