Ruth Ware’s The Woman in Suite 11 attempts to rekindle the suspense of The Woman in Cabin 10, but the sequel feels more like a layover than a destination. Lo Blacklock returns, now juggling motherhood and a stalled journalism career, and is thrust into another high-stakes mystery involving a reclusive billionaire and a supposed mistress in distress. While the European chase adds a cinematic flair, the plot leans heavily on familiar tropes and lacks the fresh tension that made the original a standout. Ware’s signature twists are present but predictable, making this installment a serviceable yet unremarkable addition to her bibliography.

Thank you to netgalley for giving me the chance to read the woman in suite eleven. I dislike reading too much in a review; I’d rather form my own opinion and allow other readers the same opportunity. I can easily say that the twist added to the first twist is one of my favorite writing styles Ruth Ware has. Happy reading….especially to the readers that are trying a Ruth Ware title for the first time! You’re in for a treat.

Ruth Ware is a must read author for me, and this long awaited sequel to The Woman in Cabin 10 intrigued me from the start. I think I might have enjoyed it slightly more if I hadn't read Cabin 10 so many years ago -- I did have trouble remembering some plot points. But that said, The Woman in Suite 11 still delivers in twisty, suspenseful Ruth Ware fashion. A great summer thriller.

Thank you Gallery Books and NetGalley for my copy!

I liked this book well enough, and it kept me interested, but it didn't do it for me like the Woman in Cabin 10. I definitely would give this author another go. Especially with how much I enjoyed The Woman in Cabin 10.

The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware is an engaging summer thriller and a follow-up to The Woman in Cabin 10. The story revisits Lo Blacklock ten years later who is now married with children she adores. Despite her happy life, something feels missing, so when she’s invited to the grand opening of a luxury hotel, she sees it as an opportunity for a career boost and hopes to —secure an exclusive with the elusive millionaire Marcus Leidmann.

The plot takes its time building momentum, but once the twists start unfolding, it becomes completely gripping. The cat and mouse story is filled with unexpected turns, making it difficult to discuss without spoiling the surprises. Some familiar faces from the first book make an appearance, though not all felt essential to the story. Still, their inclusion adds a layer of continuity for returning readers.

Overall, this is a quick, easy read with a satisfying payoff that makes the slower start worthwhile. For those who enjoy psychological thrillers that keep them guessing, The Woman in Suite 11 delivers a solid and entertaining ride.

Thank you Gallery Books for the advanced reader copy. This is my honest review.

I was excited about this one as I enjoyed her first book but haven’t seem to enjoy any others after. Maybe I’m not as into her writing as I used to be? Otherwise it was an okay quick read.

Another adventure for Lo Blacklock that was highly anticipated, at least in my opinion. I absolutely loved The Woman in Cabin 10 and was pleasantly surprised that another novel was written to continue to saga. This book takes place 10 years after the first, and reintroduces many main characters. I loved being able to see what everyone had been up to over the last decade, as well as find out what happened to Carrie, since it was kind of left up in the air. I highly recommend this book if you enjoyed The Woman in Cabin 10. It did a fantastic job of tying up any loose ends, as well as sent Lo on yet another wild goose chase to figure out who done it!

I have enjoyed all of Ruth's previous titles, but this one just does not hit home. Maybe it's because it's a sequel? I just found myself hurrying through and not enjoying it as usual.
Thanks NetGalley for the chance to read this one.

I requested this because I’m pretty much always game for a Ruth Ware book. I enjoyed The Woman in Cabin 10, but I don’t know that it needed a sequel? I also found Lo kind of annoying in the first book, and although she’s less so here (she more or less has her life together at this point), this just wasn’t a story I was itching to return to.

I confess to remembering squat about the first book, other than the fact that parts of it strained credulity. I reread a library copy, and I’m glad I did, because this is truly one of those sequels that does require you to have read (and remember) the first book. (often mystery sequels tend to be set in the same universe, but knowledge of the previous outings isn’t necessarily required - Lee Goldberg’s Eve Ronin series in particular comes to mind) In the first book, Lo gets to go on this fabulous yacht cruise as a travel writing assignment - she borrows some mascara from the titular woman in cabin 10 before the first dinner…and then she hears a scream later that night and swears she saw a body fall overboard. But everyone claims cabin 10 is empty. Lo keeps digging, in spite of the fact that she’s not a detective, has a bit of a drinking problem, and keeps getting warned to drop it or else. In the end, she’s held captive in the belly of the ship for a bit before she manages to escape in a sequence that truly would have killed a person (there’s jumping overboard, there’s walking all night through the wilderness without shoes). The woman she saw the first night is the mistress of the rich dude in charge (I forget his name and it’s not important). The dead body she saw going overboard was that dude’s WIFE. Although everyone met the real wife on the very first night, the rest of the trip, the mistress is posing as her. Lo gets too close to figuring out the truth, so Carrie kidnaps her - this never made particular sense to me the first time around, because I wasn’t sure what Carrie’s endgame was. Like…she knows too much for you to let her go, so why are you keeping her alive at all? In the first book’s epilogue, it’s implied that Carrie survived the ordeal and sent Lo a few thousand pounds for her trouble.

Ahem. So when this book opens, it’s several years later. Lo has married Judah, her boyfriend from the first book, and they’ve moved to America with their two young kids. Lo wrote a fairly successful memoir about her experience from the first book, but thanks to both motherhood and the pandemic, she’s been out of the writing game for a bit (Judah seemingly stumbled into a job at the New York Times, of all places). So when she gets a press invite to the opening of a fancy hotel in Switzerland, Lo jumps at the chance. She calls all of her contacts about writing a piece about the experience, but travel writing isn’t quite as lucrative as it used to be. BUT, the hotel is owned by Marcus Leidmann, a reclusive billionaire. If Lo can score a sit down interview with him, she could publish a decent profile (he’s famously tightlipped around the press).

But once Lo gets to the hotel, there are a lot of familiar faces around - so many people who happened to be on the Aurora with her. And when she again hears a scream in the middle of the night, she worries history may be repeating itself.

Without giving too much away, I didn’t enjoy this quite as much as the first book. It’s a quick read, but I wasn’t terribly excited to come back to it, or terribly motivated to finish it (one of those books you just keep coming back to in the absence of anything else exciting). Similar to last time, I found Lo really frustrating. She’s allegedly an adult, but she still reads much younger to me. And while I hate when a character’s entire personality is “mom”...girl, you have kids! Enjoy your free vacation, go see your mother, and get the hell out of Europe. Stop trying to be a detective.
Again, I wasn’t particularly enamoured with these characters the first time around, so I don’t think this outing was strictly necessary. And as others have already pointed out, it isn’t really doing anything new either. Yes, we’re on land and there are detectives, but for the most part this is a very similar story, just set in the Alps instead of on a boat.

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started this book, but I was very pleasantly surprised. I ended up finishing the book in just a few sittings and really enjoyed the story and characters.

I maintain that no thriller merits a sequel unless its a foray into Christie or Conan-Doyle style character installments. Unfortunately, Lauren "Lo" Blacklock is no Miss Marple or Sherlock Holmes and lacks the investigative prowess (and, frankly, the survival instincts) to sustain an elongated narrative. Part of what I love about Ruth Ware's canon is the self-contained nature of her stories. Each book is an opportunity to take a similar character and similar conceit and tweak things just enough to differentiate the narratives from one another. The Woman and Suite 11 not only fails to feel different, damningly, it fails to even feel necessary. Without giving spoilers, much of the plot relies on the 1) the reappearance of a certain character from The Woman in Cabin 10 and 2) Lo Blacklock's astonishingly poor decision making. In the tradition of slasher movie protagonists from times of yore, Lo just cannot seem to make logical decisions in the face of obvious warning flags. It is hard to feel invested in a conflict when you have to put the book down every few chapters to roll your eyes at the ceiling. Lo's transition to motherhood is the only unique plot thread, and this too follows narrative paths already well-trodden in Ware's own "The It Girl". Overall, the novel seems more concerned with making playful references to the first book than advancing a unique plot line. A disappointment from one of the few thriller authors I've consistently enjoyed!

I read The Woman in Cabin 10 when it came out in 2016 and have since read all of Ruth Ware’s domestic thrillers. I don’t normally read many domestic thrillers as a sub-genre of mysteries, but I do find Ware’s writing to be suspenseful, with a touch of fun and adventure.
Now, as a sequel to that very popular book, Ware has written The Woman in Suite 11 – with the same main character, Lo Blacklock, a travel writer, who has been given a free week on a cruise. Lo in Cabin 10 was a 30-something, rather naïve woman who was too nice for her own good and ended up in a nightmare at sea. I fell for kind Lo and her ability to solve a good old fashion whodunit.
Now, 10 years later, Lo is still naïve, unfortunately, and comes back, still as a travel writer, to a plush hotel in Switzerland, hoping to interview the billionaire owner. At the initial dinner Lo is surprised to run into at least three people from that fateful cruise 10 years ago! And soon Lo is rushing across Europe on her way to England, only to find herself involved in yet another murder, this time as the suspect.
The reader does not have to have read The Woman in Cabin 10 to appreciate this novel; however, I did find it helpful to know the characters who pop up again in Suite 11. My main concern with the novel is that Lo, even after 10 years and having children to care for, has yet in her 40s to mature into the concept of self-care. I found myself more than once, rolling my eyes at Lo for her dangerous actions and unnecessary concern for others over herself and her family.
Truly, I loved The Woman in Cabin 10. But that same woman in Suite 11 in Switzerland? I really did not care for her. And it is hard to stay connected in a domestic thriller without liking the main character. Also, unfortunately, a cruise has the added fun setting of creating a locked-room-mystery, while a run across Europe from hotel to hotel is bizarre when all the same people show up again and again. I DID enjoy The Woman in Suite 11, but it is hard not to compare the two books.
Netflix has announced the upcoming film adaptation of The Woman in Cabin 10, staring actress Keira Knightley. THAT should be great fun – and that is how I am going to remember Lo Blacklock, travel writer. A woman who was tolerated at 30 for being naïve, but a character who should probably not have been given a sequel unless she had matured.
My rating: 3 of 5
This ARC title was provided by Netgalley.com at no cost, and I am providing an unbiased review. The Woman in Suite 11 will be published on July 19, 2025.

I had my doubts about a ""sequel" to The Woman in Suite 10... but friends, Ruth Ware absolutely killed it!

Lo Blacklock is BACK.... she's in her 40s, married, has children, and is attempting to reignite her career. When she's invited to a grand opening of a hotel in Switzerland, she decides to go. But when she arrives, she's surprised to find many people in her past, including a certain woman who's kind of a frenemy... and who needs her help. Lo is drawn deeper into the (now dangerous) mystery, all while simply trying to get home to her family. This was a fabulous book!

I enjoyed this story . This story follows the return of Lo Blacklock ten years after the horror of The Woman in Cabin 10. I loved reading The Woman in Cabin 10 and really any Ruth Ware books! Lo is trying to get an interview with Marcus Leidmann owner of a luxury hotel. Things start getting weird and had some twists I was not expecting. Overall a good read!

4 stars

This is one of those books where you should read the first one in the series before this! Lo is back after ten years, and for those readers who were frustrated at drunk unreliable Lo: fear not! You get horrible decision making Lo instead. She has settled down, married and had kids, and wouldn't know a trap if it was written on the front door. And I LOVE it. I really do (and that might be an unpopular opinion), but I was screaming at this character the whole time. Ware has this ability in a thriller to make me invested in the characters good or bad, and have me needing to turn the pages to find out what happens next. To me, that makes it a solid thriller. Also a good life lesson to stay petty and not forgive, because what do you MEAN you are going to help Carrie?! Shove that mascara in her eye and be done with her. If Tiggers always bounce back let her bounce somewhere the eff else. While I predicted most things, I really enjoyed revisiting these characters and yelling at them through the pages. It helps me feel like a competent adult. No, I didn't get the laundry done, but you know what else I didn't do? Let a criminal who tried to kill me ten years ago use my passport.

Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for an advanced copy to form opinions from.

I would like to thank NetGalley and Gallery Books for allowing me to read an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I've been a Ruth Ware fan for a long time, and was excited to hear about a new book. I'm not sure what I was expecting for a sequel to The Woman in Cabin 10, 10 years later, but I was still intrigued. Did we really NEED a sequel to that book? No. But did I devour it anyway? Yes. For those who have trouble remembering the plot of the previous book, I recommend you re-read (or skim) it before diving into this one.

The Woman in Cabin 11 takes us on another Lob Blacklock adventure, 10 years after the events on The Aurora in "Cabin 10". Lo is now married with 2 little boys, and trying to get back in the travel journalist game. She receives a mysterious invitation to visit a new Hotel in the Swiss Alps for its grand opening. She accepts, hoping to snag an interview with the elusive Marcus Leidmann.

Things get weird on the trip very quickly. First, a mysterious upgrade to first class; then other guests at the opening just happen to also have been on the Aurora; and secret notes left in her room. Lo reunites with an old friend, and decides to help her, ultimately leading her on a wild game of cat-and-mouse and suspected of murder.

The book is very fast-paced and twisty. The mystery and suspense were enough to make me binge-read the book to find out what happens. But the Lo in this book is very naïve (stupid). I don't remember her being this unlikeable in the first book, but every choice she makes in this book is dumb. It is very frustrating but makes you feel invested enough to hope she succeeds.

I did enjoy this book, but outside of my Mystery/Thriller book club, I am not sure I would recommend it. Ruth Ware fans will like it, but it definitely leaves us wanting a different new book from the author.

This is a sequel to The Woman in Cabin 10. We are now 10 years after the events on The Aurora cruise and Lo is living in NY with her husband and her two boys. She gets the opportunity for a travel writing assignment with a free stay for a week at a luxury European hotel. She goes and then after checking in realizes she is seeing a lot of other guests from The Aurora. While disturbing, she chalks it up to the travel writing world being small and sets her sights on interviewing Marcus Liedermann. But then when an unexpected guest invites her to Suite 11 for a visit, suddenly Lo is back in a world of missing and dead guests with her right in the middle.

Excellent follow up book, great writing by Ruth Ware as always! Good twisty novel.

Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and Gallery Books for the advance reader copy. Publication date July 8, 2025.

In THE WOMAN IN SUITE 11, Ruth Ware issues a sequel to THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 after a decade. I did read the first novel, but I had to refresh myself on it because, well, it’s been 10 years. And then reading my review, I realized I was pretty eh about the first novel. Mainly, I found the main character Lo Blacklock exasperating, and I didn’t find the mystery that propulsive.

So I probably shouldn’t have requested this one, but it’s Ruth Ware!

Lo Blacklock is married now and with two young kids. After being out of the workforce since the birth of her children (and the pandemic), she’s eager to get back to work at the press opening of a new hotel on Lake Geneva. With the lure of a big assignment if she can nab the hotel owner Marcus Leidmann for an interview, she leaves NYC to go to Switzerland. Now, I was with this premise, and I was sucked into the story initially.

When she gets to the hotel, it’s basically a reunion of the characters from CABIN 10, including several frenemies. And then I stopped buying the plotline, especially with Carrie. I found Lo exasperating. Most of the time, you’re slapping your head and rolling your eyes. But then Lo will have a moment of brilliance, and then we’re back again to a series of stupid decisions. Despite the great start to this novel, I found Lo incredibly, unbelievably naive, which was a similar complaint I had about her in the first novel.

If you loved THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10, then check this one out. But if you didn’t like that one, I don’t think this one will be for you.

My favorite Ruth Ware is THE DEATH OF MRS. WESTAWAY. I loved the characters and gothic setting in that one although the mystery wasn’t very suspenseful (4 ⭐️ read for me).

Thank you to NetGalley and Gallery/Scout Press for an Advance Reader Copy in exchange for an unbiased review.

It publishes July 8, 2025.

'The Woman in Suite 11' is a worthy follow-up to best-seller 'The Woman in Cabin 10'. Catching up with the ten years since Lo Blacklock was in danger on the cruise ship was like putting on a pair of comfortable shoes. Lo's written a successful novel about what transpired on the Aurora, a small luxury cruise ship ten years ago. In addition, she has married and has two small boys. Lo has been staying at home, but has begun searching for a position to return to travel writing when an invitation arrives offering her the opportunity to preview a luxury resort in Switzerland. Her husband, Judah, encourages her to take the opportunity although she only has a tentative agreement to be paid for an article by the Financial Times. Lo realizes at dinner the first night that three of the attendees were also on the Aurora and wonders if there is a connection, Later, she receives a message and is once again is thrust into danger courtesy of the woman in suite 11. The narrative sped by and had a satisfying conclusion.

Thank you Gallery Books and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this Arc in return for an honest review.

This is a sequel of sorts to The Woman in Cabin 10 by author Ruth Ware. Sadly, Lo is still insipid and makes every dumb decision possible. Without a FMC I could root for, there was nothing to make me care where the book led. The twists were well-written. I just didn't care about the outcome or characters.