by Imogen Robertson
I read to page 17 and quit. There were two many parallel plots going on and the writing was pretty dull. I may pick it up again some day but right now I'm reading other, more interesting mysteries so Im going to continue with those for now.
Harriett Westerman is a woman who is alone but married, her husband is captain on a ship. Her sister lives with her, and she has to manage the house and the family there. This makes her more independent than most women of her time. When she encounters a body she goes directly to reclusive anatomi...
Although I found this book to be fascinating in its' character development; I found it to be lacking in its' storyline. Halfway through the book I had figured out the killer although I didn't know the why. There was a nice twist to it, but not a "shocker". Furthermore, I listened to this book and fo...
Engaging and satisfying. I truly enjoyed it!
A very enjoyable forensic type historical mystery set in England during the Georgian era. The plot runs along two parallel paths, one in London during the Gordon riots and the other in the countryside of West Sussex, with flashbacks to the Revolutionary War so there was a lot going on but it was al...
A good historical mystery set in 1780. An unknown man is killed in rural England and another man is murdered in London, leaving the latter's two young children orphaned and in danger.As Gabriel Crowther is reluctantly dragged into the investigation of the rural murder by Harriet Westerman, neither h...
Tension builds from the moment Mrs Westerman, genteel proprietress of Caveley Park, forces her acquaintance on reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther, wealthy man of secrets and possessor of many strange and distasteful objects, in search of his help in dealing with the death of a stranger in her cops...
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