When London Rose, 33, is proposed to by her long-time boyfriend, she realizes she is facing a stable, predictable, pre-determined (and passionless) life. She freaks out and runs the other way-accepting, instead, a job across the Atlantic as a tour-guide on a high-end European cruise line that travels through a country a day. London is searching for a more romantic, unscripted, and exciting life that she feels sure exists out there somewhere.
London is elated: the European river towns are small, historic, and charming. She gets to see a new port every night and gets to sample an endless array of new cuisine and meet a stream of interesting people. It is a traveler's dream, and it is anything but predictable.
“Crime (and Lager)”, the cruise takes them into Germany, into its historic towns and fabled beer festivals. But when a festival goer-a loud, arrogant local-turns up dead from drinking too much beer, suspicion falls on the touring passengers. The death is quickly ruled a murder, and London realizes her future-and that of the ship-hinges on her solving the crime.
Laugh-out-loud funny, romantic, endearing, rife with new sights, culture, and food, “Crime (and Lager)” offers a fun and suspenseful trip through the heart of Europe, anchored in an intriguing mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat and guessing until the very end.
