Alfred and Ettie Palmer are back for another stunning standalone Victorian mystery.
Wrexham, 1884. Eight years earlier they’d been warned never again to interfere with police business. But it seems their skills are needed once more. A body deliberately drowned but left abandoned on the banks of the River Dee. A mysterious tattoo. Then two further murders, each more bizarre than the last – killings which draw them ever further into a circle of unlikely allies, eccentric suspects, old enemies, and the murky world of Fenian plots and bombings. A kidnapping. An attempted rescue among the tombstones of Chester’s Overleigh Cemetery. And a terrifying May Day climax. But why Wrexham? Why the River Dee? And have the true culprits really been identified?
I really enjoyed this book. I haven't read the first book that have our characters in however it didn't make any difference. I enjoyed meeting the characters and enjoyed the time period that they were living in.
I think what really made this book for me is that it was set so close to where I live so I could literally picture the places that they were talking about and it made it even better. I thought that the storyline was very intriguing and I thought that it was very clever.
Some of the scenes were described very beautifully even though our characters were in perilious situations! I really liked both Alfred and Ettie but I must say that Ettie was very brave at times and she was a great character. I must say however that the ending was not what I was expecting!
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Huge Thanks to Love Books Tours and David Ebsworth for my place on the blog tour.
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