When the body of a wealthy widow is found in a disused graveyard, the two amateur detectives Penny and Emma get on the case because they realise the detectives are dragging their feet and trying to pin the murder on the unfortunate person who found the body.
London 1890 is not conducive for any lady to have any job and this detecting has to be carried out discreetly. They realise that though the lady was wealthy and contributed to many good causes, no one actually liked her and on investigation, Penny and Emma discovered why. This opened up the number of suspects greatly and it was up to them to whittle it down to the one person who had done this.
The story is a very good one, with strong female characters but it is the descriptiveness of the era, and the manner in which Emma and Penny had to work that drew my interest.
Sent by Storm Publishing for an unbiased review, courtesy of Netgalley.
