The Book:
The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware
July 8, 2025 by Gallery/Scout Press
Date read: May 25, 2025
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The Woman in Suite 11 spoilers can be found below, but they’re hidden under a spoiler tag so you’re safe to keep scrolling if you’d just like to read my review.
The Characters:
Lo Blacklock
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The Plot (from Goodreads):
When the invitation to attend the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel—owned by reclusive billionaire Marcus Leidmann—arrives, it’s like the answer to a prayer. Three years after the birth of her youngest child, Lo Blacklock is ready to reestablish her journalism career, but post-pandemic travel journalism is a very different landscape from the one she left ten years ago.
The chateau on the shores of Lake Geneva is everything Lo’s ever dreamed of, and she hopes she can snag an interview with Marcus. Unfortunately, he proves to be even more difficult to pin down than his reputation suggests. When Lo gets a late-night call asking her to come to Marcus’s hotel room, she agrees despite her own misgivings. She’s greeted, however, by a woman claiming to be Marcus’s mistress, and in life-or-death jeopardy.
What follows is a thrilling cat-and-mouse pursuit across Europe, forcing Lo to ask herself just how much she’s willing to sacrifice to save this woman…and if she can even trust her?
The Woman in Suite 11 Spoilers
The Reveal:
It’s 10 years since the events of THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10, and Lo has had two kids with Judah and until recently took a hiatus from writing after writing a book about her experiences on the Aurora. She’s trying to get back into the workforce, and has just been invited to the opening of a fancy hotel in Switzerland.
Ben Howard (Lo’s ex), Alexander Bulhomme (a food critic), and Cole Lederer (photographer) were all people from the first book who show up on the welcome night for the hotel. Things begin to seem strange for Lo when she finds the mascara from TWICT in her luggage.
Then she gets summoned to Suite 11, only to find Carrie there. (If you don’t know who Carrie is, refresh yourself with my recap of The Woman in Cabin 10.) Lo is understandably shocked to see her. Carrie tells Lo that since they last saw each other, she spent years making withdrawals from Anne Bullmer’s accounts, still pretending to be her. One day, though, the accounts were suddenly closed. As she was sitting in a cafe wondering what to do now (she couldn’t get a job because she had no true idea and was wanted for questioning about the events of the Aurora), she met Marcus Liedmann. He wined and dined her and she decided to date him for his money.
Eventually Marcus let on that he knew what Carrie had done on the Aurora, and she was once again trapped by a powerful man. He had collected evidence and would report her to the authorities if she left him.
Carrie wanted Lo to help her escape. She had styled her hair to look like Lo’s and knew that Lo had two passports. She wanted them to both leave Switzerland and travel to the UK the same day by train so that it looked like an administrative error if it was noticed in the ticketing system.
Lo eventually agreed. They pulled off the escape, but then a couple days later, Marcus happened to follow them to the same hotel. The next morning, he was found dead. Lo “knew” Carrie had been in the bath at the time of his death. Since the police didn’t know Carrie was in the hotel, Lo looked like a suspect. Marcus also had incriminating pictures of Lo and Cole on his phone.
While Lo was being investigated, Carrie disappeared. Lo’s husband Judah came to town, and they tracked Carrie to her grandmother’s house (Carrie had stolen Lo’s suitcase, which Judah had put a tracker on). Once they found Carrie, Lo realized that Carrie and Pieter were in on it together and had conspired to kill Marcus. She turned Carrie in to the investigator from Interpol, who came alone to collect Carrie.
When Lo contacted her lawyer, though, he didn’t know who Inspector Capaldi was. He told them that Interpol couldn’t make arrests.
The Ending:
In the end, Lo realized that Carrie and Capaldi were lovers, and Carrie had set it up so that Capaldi would help her escape. She left Lo a phone filled with evidence against Pieter so that Lo wouldn’t be incriminated. Pieter broke into Lo’s mother’s house to get this phone and ended up killing himself when Lo was able to call 999 and back him into a corner.
Once Lo was home in America, she received an Instagram message from Carrie, a picture of Carrie and Capaldi that confirmed Lo’s suspicions that they were a couple.
I hope these The Woman in Suite 11 spoilers were helpful.
The Review:
At long last, the sequel to The Woman in Cabin 10! Fans have been waiting for this day for almost a decade, and I definitely think Ruth Ware delivered. While this isn’t my favorite book of hers, it gives fans another epic trek from Lo with more deception and chaos caused by Carrie.
You definitely have to have read THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 to be able to connect with this sequel (don’t worry, here’s the refresher if you need it). Lo and Carrie’s relationship makes absolutely no sense without the backstory (and even is a bit far-fetched when you know it!). The first book is immediately spoiled by this one, and I think the first book is the better read.
I loved the fast-paced nature of this follow-up, and was eager to see where the story would take Lo this time. I was expecting a more mature, worldly, and level-headed Lo, but she was just as naive as in Book 1. Regardless, I enjoyed the tale and continue to adore Ruth Ware. I wouldn’t have asked for this sequel, but I’m glad I read it.
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