Amy B. (BaileysBooks) reviewed on 6/26/2014 + 491 more book reviews

This is the first book in the London Murder Squad series.

I love historical fiction, and Victorian-era London is one of my favorite settings for a good murder mystery. For me, nothing is worse than reading a poorly written book set in this time period. Fortunately, Alex Grecian's debut novel was not a disappointment. The plot was interesting, the characters had depth, and the atmosphere of the times was very well described.


With that said, I would still rate this as a slightly above average book. It was very entertaining, but not as engrossing as I would have preferred. The mystery was good but it wasn't as complicated as some of the characters made it out to be, and for me that was distracting. However, I thought that the character development and the growth of those relationships was very well done, and I could easily see these characters continuing to grow in the coming novels.

In all, this was a book worth reading and it is one that I would easily recommend to any fan of historical fiction, especially to people like me who are fascinated by the early days of police forensics in Jack the Ripper London.

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