They said only one police officer has ever been assigned to investigate Rebecca’s disappearance. He flew in from Nassau in the Bahamas, 1,500 miles from the ship – just one man charged with conducting a forensic investigation and interviewing 3,000 passengers and crew. He took charge because the ship is registered in the Bahamas, for tax reasons. It wasn’t deemed relevant that it’s based in Los Angeles, the company’s head office is in the UK, Rebecca was British, and she went missing in international waters between the US and Mexico. (For European passengers, this holds true for all cruise liners, but a law passed last year means if a US citizen disappears on a cruise ship, the FBI now has jurisdiction.)

We pull into the port. This is where Mike and Ann came on 25 March after receiving a call from Disney executive Jim Orie to say Rebecca was missing. They were here in time to see the passengers disembark.

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Part Three: 'Their eyes met and exchanged a flurry of masculine/feminine master/slave signals.' — High-Flying Lives Ronson paints himself as a cowardly, neurotic type, but his subject matter tells another story, and he’s got more guts than I do. The people he talks to in Lost at Sea are strange, and rather than indulge them, Ronson asks the tough questions and gets to the root of things. That pertains to specific details about the investigation and so it’s not appropriate for us to share that kind of information,” she replies.

It's very hard to describe this collection of Guardian and GQ columns written by the author of Men Who Stare at Goats. On the surface, the topics sound decidedly dark - a high-school murder plot in North Pole, Alaska, the suspected cover up of the disappearance of a Disney cruise employee who went missing off a ship, the trial of an '80s pop star accused of pedophilia. But Ronson is the kind of narrator who has the gift of making all these stories accessibly human, truly fascinating, and weirdly entertaining. Who knew that Robbie Williams believes in UFOs and aligned being abducted by aliens as much like being in Take That as a teenager? I say I regret never talking to one of her really good friends on board. And then – later that night – a woman telephones. I’ll call her Melissa. She says she’d never have talked to me had Mike and Ann not asked her to. Finally he ends on a story about actually being lost at sea. Apparently every two weeks someone disappears over the side of the cruise ship. International waters are essentially lawless, especially as cruise companies register their ships in “flag of convenience” countries. Well, finally finished last night and my attention never waned once. What an interesting book. There was no connection between the chapters other than that they were quirky slices of life: Jonathan King's trial; a famous psychic; missing girl from a cruise ship; credit debt and suicide; neural linquistic programming; the coughing major. This is a book for enquiring minds, but possibly its English-centric focus might make it a bit confusing for anyone who doesn't, for example, know who the coughing major is. Mind you, I'd never heard of Insane Clown Posse and that's still one of my favourite chapters.

Here I felt that Ronson was laughing at a group of odd religious people who meant well, albeit in a rather strange way by offering to donate their kidneys to strangers. I felt I was supposed to laugh with him at them, but I didn't. The Hunger Games. Jon investigates the world of competitive eating in the US. Interesting but overall pretty depressing. Blood Sacrifice, Amazing piece of journalism on the Jesus Christians, who were trying to illegally donate kidneys to strangers in 2002/2003. The answer’s yes,” he said. “That’s the story among the crew.” He paused. “Put murder to one side. Just think about the drinking. Royal Caribbean has just started a policy of unlimited drinks for one price. Celebrity is doing it.” The Fall of a Pop Impresario. In 2001, Jonathan King was arrested for raping underage boys in the sixties and seventies. Jon followed the case. Interesting to see how attitudes have changed between then and the current Yewtree age. I feel like Jon’s attitudes would have been pretty different post-Saville.

Ronson is a character himself his pieces, a highly neurotic, cynical one, but also one who also brings the perfect blend of insight and wryness to his personally felt observations. Thinking Inside the Box. A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the frankly insane world of Deal or no Deal. Funny and creepy. Noel Edmonds, ugghhhhhhhThis is a collection of journalism by Jon Ronson, published in various places and over a period of around 20 years. My plan was to read a chapter at a time, interspersing them with other books, but I ended up devouring it in one go over a couple of days - it was just so addictive. It's very hard to describe this collection of Guardian and GQ columns written by the author of Men Who Stare at Goats. On the surface, the topics sound decidedly dark - a high-school murder plot in North Pole, Alaska, the suspected cover up of the disappea If you haven't read anything by Ronson, this collection of 20+ essays would be a great starting point.