So there I was sitting in the pub....

When a woman came from behind and tapped me on the shoulder. I turned to find this person  smiling and talking to me. I knew the face but couldn't quite place her at the time.

"You are Mark Rice, the author?"  Yes, I confessed I was.

"Well, I bought your book from Castle Delights cafe in the Summer .....

I held my breath

".....and I couldn't put it down."

I heaved a sigh of relief and returned her smile with interest. As a writer, you are never quite sure which way the feedback goes. Particularly this book. It tells the story from the perspective of a murderer who keeps a diary to record an unforgettable cruise. I knew I was making it hard for myself to expect readers to warm to a character who goes about killing pensioners and behaving badly. Hopefully, my writing illustrates that no one is all bad and anti-social behaviour is not the sole prerogative of the young.

"Yes," she went on "I was thinking of booking a cruise but having read your book, well, frankly, I'm having second thoughts! I loved it and kept turning the page to see what happened next, will he get away with it and walk off the shop or end up in handcuffs and prison."

"Are you writing a sequel?" She looked at me with more than a little anticipation.

"I have another book that's presently a work in progress so all going well you will be able to pick it up in the cafe next summer" I replied. She seemed pleased with the reply and moved away through the packed lounge. My wife squeezed my arm encouragingly. Positive feedback is the nicest thing a writer can get and I'm so grateful to that lady.

"I do hope more people get to read this book," my wife said before sipping on her piping hot coffee.

 So if you have ever wondered what passengers do on long cruises with many days at sea do read this book.

If you enjoy reading about visits to the Carribean islands, Chichen Itza, the USA, the Azores, and parts of South America, read this book.

If you want to be amused, informed and scared (a little) then read this book!


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New maritime fiction novel "Murder On Board - diary of a murderer" where you follow the activities onboard of passengers and crew, many of whom will not be disembarking in Southampton on the ships return. It's a pacy story of life (and death) on board as the ship progresses across the Atlantic and towards the sunny Caribbean and the Americas and sucks the reader into life on board during long days at sea. I hope you will enjoy it and leave your review. I'd love to hear from you too so please email at markrice10@gmail.com.

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Holiday reading - new crime novel that transports you around the world on a cruise of a lifetime that you will never forget 

Murder On Board paperback copies arrive

Holidays bring out the best and worst in people. Taking an adult only cruise holiday to the sunny Caribbean in mid-winter seemed a great idea.  What could go wrong?

Join Luke and his wife on the cruise of a lifetime which is memorable for all the wrong reasons as passengers die and tensions rise.

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Author Reading "Murder On Board"

Special Pre-Order price - 99p/99c for a limited time only!
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Releasing on 2nd May 2019 via Junction Publishing

Take a chance on this maritime crime thriller.

New 2019 crime fiction novel available for limited period on pre-order

New 2019 Crime Fiction

Murder On Board is a crime fiction novel which is bursting with incidents that will grab your attention from the very first page.

On page one you will meet Luke and his wife in their hotel room on the morning they fly to join their cruise of a lifetime. They have a challenging timetable of buses, planes, trains and taxi’s which all have to work seamlessly to enable them to make the 5.00pm sailing from Southampton.

Outside their Dublin, Ireland hotel, at 7.30 am, on a January morning, the barometer is struggling to touch zero degrees but in their minds, they are already in holiday mode, focused on the balmy 25 degrees they will encounter in the Caribbean.

This is a transatlantic cruise where they will cross the Atlantic Ocean both coming and going home. That in itself is a challenge as the ship will encounter 5 days of stormy weather before they reach the Azores and another 5 days before they reach Bermuda. Fortunately, the cruise is a fifty-day voyage so there will be plenty of time to get a tan, visit the odd World Heritage site, pop into Cape Canaveral, travel up the Everglades and up the Amazon River.

Oh, and learn a new skill, bridge, ballroom dancing or painting.

Don’t people die as well?

Well, yes they do, but I don’t want to put any of you, prospective travellers, off taking a cruise, with stories of deaths on board. It happens. People die everywhere, in toilets, at home in bed, driving cars, at work. Death is just another part of living. There is a morgue on board, which is rather full at the moment.

So there isn’t a murderer on board?

Now I didn’t say that did I? Did I?

There may well be one on board but please don’t spread it around. There are 2,000 passengers and 800 crew on board and the last thing we want is to instil panic.

Remember this is a holiday of a lifetime for this geriatric group of passengers. Please don’t ruin it for them by telling them about a murderer who is killing people.

Just keep that stiff British lip buttoned and just enjoy the cruise. Let’s face it you can’t get off! We are 3 days from land.

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Releasing on 2nd May 2019 via Junction Publishing

"Murder On Board" by Agatha Christie and Mark Rice

Agatha Christie’s publishers released "Murder On Board", a book of the same name, back in 1974 which was a compilation of three of Agatha Christie's mystery novels, The Mystery of the Blue Train, Death in the Air and What Mrs McGillicuddy Saw!

In the “Mystery of The Blue Train” published in 1928 we find that if Hercule Poirot had not been on the luxury boat-train from London to the Riviera, the murder of a beautiful young woman would have gone un-avenged, the disappearance of the fabulous rubies would have remained unsolved, and one of the most diabolically clever conspiracies of the era would have succeeded.

“Death in the Air” published in 1935 twenty-one passengers were flying across the English Channel. In the rear of the cabin a woman, her head lolling forward, seemed to be asleep, but she was dead. Madame Giselle a money-lender, a blackmailer was a woman with a past and had been murdered. And the crime had been committed in Mr Poirot's presence by one of the occupants of the aeroplane.

In “What Mrs McGillicuddy Saw” published in 1957 Mrs McGillicuddy insisted that she had seen a murder take place from her train window. Unlike “Girl On a Train”, written by Paula Hawkins, where the murder occurred in a house backing onto the rail line, in Agatha Christies novel the murderer is a man, standing in a compartment of a train running parallel with her train. 

There is no “Murder On Board” mystery novel at all until now that is!

The novel “Murder On Board” is being published by Junction Publishing with a release date of May 2019 and the title is a perfect fit for what the book is about. Readers will join Luke and his wife on the cruise of a lifetime which is memorable for all the wrong reasons as passengers die and tensions rise. The cruise is a long one, 50 days and covers thousands of miles of ocean even venturing up the Amazon River. The passengers enjoy life on board and excursions ashore but are kept in the dark about certain, life-terminating events.

You can pre-order this new Irish crime fiction novel now for 99p!

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Murder On Board my new crime fiction thriller goes on pre-order today and at a special Pre-Order price of  99p/99c.  Please follow this link to avail of this price - https://geni.us/FxaA8

It is scheduled for release on 2nd May 2019 via Junction Publishing.

Holidays bring out the best and worst in people. Taking an adult only cruise holiday to the sunny Caribbean in mid-winter seemed a great idea.

What could go wrong?

Join Luke and his wife on the cruise of a lifetime which is memorable for all the wrong reasons as passengers die and tensions rise.

New Crime Fiction for 2019

"Murder On Board"a 2019 new maritime crime fiction novel preview

Free Book - preview copy of fiction novel "Murder On Board"

“Murder On Board” my latest crime fiction novel is being published in May 2019 by Junction Publishing. The pre-order date on Amazon / Kindle is Tuesday 5th February so time is flying by.

Would you like a free preview copy of the book when the final editing is completed?

If you do, please click here to visit the book’s website and submit your email address. If you prefer my Facebook author page please click here to follow

This offer is limited to the first 50 folks that reply so please reply today!

Welcome to "Murder On Board" Free Book Offer

Welcome to my site where I will give you access to everything that happens in the development and publishing of a crime fiction murder thriller novel. Though I say it myself, it's a cunningly well-written book that brings you onboard a huge modern cruise liner, the SS. Azara, where you will spend the next 50 days travelling across the world, sharing the voyage with a murdering passenger.

Have you been on a cruise?

No. Then this book will inform you in all the activities that go on when ships go to sea and spend days sailing before reaching dry land again. I know that before I took a cruise the thought of spending days in a tin can bouncing across violent seas was more the stuff of my nightmares than my dreams. The reality I found out was quite different and now I'm only sorry I didn't take to cruising earlier.

Yes. Well, you know what to expect on most ships but this one is a little different. The length of the cruise to start with. In 50 days you will visit 17 ports and some are ones that you may not have visited yourself. The adult only nature of the cruise changes the dynamics onboard. The average passenger age is upped by 10 years so that 73 years of age is average on this ship.

Oh - and I forgot to mention the ship is sailing one thousand miles up the Amazon River!

You also get to meet some very interesting passengers and crew, about 3,000 of them.

All of this and a murderer on board too. What could be better?

The book is being published in a few months by Junction Publishing and will be available on Amazon and Kindle

Please make sure you don't miss a stroke of the pen by submitting your email address on this site.
The first 50 to submit their email address will get a review copy of the book for FREE.
Yes, a Free Book Offer !!

I will update this site when I have registered the first 50 but right now this offer is open to you. The free book will be available after it has been carefully edited by my publisher which is a work in progress. I will be posting regularly to keep you in the loop. Thanks for visiting a have a great 2019.

Nebulous is not quite the word I'd use

So Jean-Claude Juncker called Mrs May "nebulous" but what does that actually mean? It comes from the Latin word nebulosus, meaning "misty," which in turn comes from nebula, meaning "mist," "fog," or "cloud." So Mrs May is like a misty cloud? Not sure I'd use that word to describe her.

It's also not the right word to describe Luke, my retired accountant and the main character in "Murder On Board". He's a bit more real and tangible than nebulous and foggy. We join him on the first day of the cruise and will spend the next 50 days travelling thousands of miles with him across the oceans of the world on a trip that takes in exotic and exciting destinations.

If you want to enjoy this story where a murderer preys on the nearly 3,000 passengers and crew for 50 days then please follow the book and click on this link. The book is due to be released in May 2019 but I will be releasing information and excerpts over the coming weeks.

Alternatively, if you want a good crime novel to read right now please click here to pick up a Kindle copy of Murder in Maspalomas currently selling at £3

"Murder On Board" Irish crime fiction at its best

The ship left Southampton with 2,899 souls on board.  She will be returning with significantly fewer passengers in 50 days time.

Luke, an inconspicuous retired accountant, starts killing people on a 69,000-ton cruise ship, during an adult-only 50-day cruise. Even his wife, with whom he shares a cabin, is kept in the dark. 

So get ready to travel thousands of miles across the seas from Southampton, England to South America and travel 1,000 miles up the Amazon River.  Experience life on board a large modern luxury cruise liner with Luke, your holiday guide from hell.