This is a well written debut novel. The characters were insteresting and came alive quickly. The ending leads into the next in a series that I will want to follow.

posted Mar 11, 2007 at 7:32PM

This was a great book! I really liked the way the story unfolded. There are great plot changes as you go and an unexpected end to the story. And good for Julia, a woman stepping outside the female traditional role in a time when they normally did not. I look forward to reading the second in the series

posted Mar 3, 2008 at 9:21AM

This is the first book of the Lady Julia Grey Series. It isn’t the ’Agatha Christie’ type of mystery novel, inserting clues to help the main character discover the identity of the killer, but I liked it. The characters were exceptional, especially the main characters, and the chapters ended with the reader wanting to read the next chapter. My only complaint was that it isn’t my kind of mystery, a.k.a. Agatha Christie or Arthur Conan Doyle type. It was laced with homesexuality which, mostly, I found ’politically correct’ and modern. I liked the book, but it was more of a modern novel then anything set in the Victorian Era.

posted Feb 5, 2012 at 1:36PM

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