Death Takes Passage by Sue Henry

I had good reason for choosing this book, one of Sue Henry's Alex Jensen Alaska mysteries. My husband and I are going on an Alaskan cruise so it seemed timely. I have read at least one of Henry's mysteries before and I think I enjoyed it. This one not so much. The setting is a commemorative cruise on the Inland Passage. It is a reenactment of sorts of an event of the Gold Rush days. I enjoyed the beginning but later got bogged down with so many characters and the description of localities on the ship. There was a murder, a planned highjacking of the ship with a huge payoff in gold and it just kept getting more confusing. It may have been my stop-and-start reading that kept me from enjoying it or perhaps I read it that way because I didn't like it much. I will give it a 2 and probably won't read another of this series for a while, if ever.