Review: Very Entertaining Victorian Era Mystery
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2013
I find the Rose McQuinn mysteries to be very entertaining. Author Alanna Knight does a good job of making the characters and dialogue real and interesting. The look that one gets into life in Edinburgh during the Victorian era is also quite interesting.While out for a stroll one morning Rose discovers the body of a dead woman. She reports it to a nearby constable but later she finds that the body and the constable have vanished.  No one believes  her and so she is determined to solve the mystery herself. Ms Knight then does a good job of putting minor mysteries in the story to keep the reader wondering along with the suspense of the main murder mystery. Why is her vagabond friend, Rory, estranged from his son?  Where are these other woman who have disappeared and may be the murder victim? All will be revealed. Hopefully.I am usually a few pages ahead of Rose in determining who the prime suspect is. How can she not see it?  But then, when she does get on his trail, I find that I am wrong.  That makes for a great mystery novel as does the surprise ending and Rose's handling of the situation.