”THE COLOR OF LAUDANUM IS RUBY. It is a liquid that consists of 90 percent alcohol and 10 percent opium. Its taste is bitter. A Swiss-German alchemist invented it in the 1500s when he discovered that opium dissolved more effectively in alcohol than in water. In the 1660s, an English physician refine...
First rate!! Like the best historical fiction I have enjoyed in the past, this novel is entertaining, a carefully crafted mystery on many levels, with interesting and engaging characters, and I found I learned a lot about the time and the place, Victorian England, and the London of Victorian Engla...
Murder as a Fine Art is exactly the kind of book I love. An historical mystery/thriller with just the right elements for it to have one leg in the horror genre. The opening chapter of the book is so shocking, it's like reading about a murder committed in our modern times. Hard to believe that it occ...
For the most part, I enjoyed Murder as a Fine Art. I was initially sucked into the story from that first few pages. The killer goes on his spree and massacres a family, including the baby. I knew I was in for a dark and disturbing killer. Then it got a bit slow for me. I didn't like the historic...
I had such a flippin' great time with this book. From the first page, I was sucked in, and the only reason I didn't finish this one in a day is that I made myself slow down and enjoy the journey -- I could have taken another 300 pages and been only slightly satisfied.Set in 1854, the novel opens wi...
London has had its share of serial killers over the centuries, but in 1854 someone has decided to recreate one of the most ghastly crime scenes in history – The 1911 Ratcliffe Highway murders. Fingers begin to point at Thomas De Quincy (Confessions of an English Opium-Eater). De Quincy published a...
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