Review: Romance, yes, but not historical
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 3, 2013
**** SPOILER ALERT ****The story is funny and a fair enough romance, but I must disagree with the reviewer who referred to it as historical.  If the writer has done any research on the period, then it was not sufficient.  The setting is mid-19th century but the dialogue and behavior exhibited are 21st century.  There are two references to Lilly wearing an undergarment which did not exist for another 25 years or so.  There are many, many grammatical errors, particularly incorrect homonyms, to the point that for the first half of the book I could not read more than a chapter without switching to read another book in its entirety to clear my head of the poor grammar.  The key to solving the killings is an anagram.  However, the anagram does not use all of the letters of the killer's name, so it isn't really an anagram.  When I put all of these factors together I felt it was still a pretty good first novel.  Then I found out that it wasn't the writer's first book but the third in this series.  To have errors to this degree in a book that is at least her third work tells me she just doesn't care enough to do the job right, and for that reason I deducted a star.