Reviews For Writers by redick. Most reviews are for readers. These are for writers looking for commentary on technique. Diana Urban's Lying in the Deep (Book) This book shows how setting can open up a huge potential for possiblities and create a story a reader can relish. All the young adult stories I can think of center around a school. Which makes sense, after all, what else is there? Diana Urban took the idea of semesteratsea.org and ran with it. By placing the college students on the cruise ship she could have a dynamic environment of port locations and the claustrophobic trappedness of the ship and not have to fall into the cliché that all the characters are trust fund dilettantes. The characters are both well developed and diverse. Realistically so. All with a history of one degree or another that plays out as the mystery unfolds. There are a number of red herrings and deads ends but they feel to come up naturally. They don't feel forced or contrived from the reader's POV. All in all, if Agatha Christie redid "Death on the Nile" with college students. You might get "Lying in the Deep".