Review: Among the Better Kindle Historical Mysteries
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2012
There is a tendency for the historical mystery to lean too heavily in the direction of Romance, subordinating the mystery element to a negligible component. That is not the case in this fine book. An interesting set of characters is created to interact with a heroine whose virtues and f,aults are made clear by the author. She is not one of paper machete young women who people too many of these novels, but a live person, who, yet, has the impulses and semi-mature personality of someone on the cusp of twenty. The theatrical setting is well done though limited in scope; not a novel of the theater but a novel with the theater as backdrop. The author writes well, the plot is interesting and historically sound (in terms of the definitions of appropriate male and female roles in the period), and the characters act in dramatically logical ways rather than being forced to behave as if robots responding to mysterious impulses with no reason behind them.For those with a taste for this genre, and those who want to chance it, I can recommend this novel.( I see no evidence on Amazon of a successor novel nor that this will be the first in a series. Hopefully, this one will draw the readership which will encourage future adventures of this young person.)