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Thank you so much Ellybird for this wish granting RABCK. I can't wait to read it. I will release it when I'm done. Also, if I ever have any books you are interested in, just let me know & they're yours!

I think I first heard of this book last year, whilst looking through somebody else's Wish List on BookCrossing.com. I do feel it is a fascinating look at Love, Life and Murder in the Victorian age. I would say it to be well researched (extensive notes/bibliography for further reading, if you should so wish). Contained in the pages are also interesting bits and pieces about early police work and the beginning of the Detective role in the force, and other cases Detective Whicher was involved in (some of which I'd heard of but not of Whicher). I was surprised by all the traveling back and forth from Australia by William Saville-Kent. You just don't think of people going back and forth in that time. I think the plane journey bad enough - but to do it by boat back then? No thank you! I also felt a personal connection with this book, as there were many mentions of places I call 'My London'. The areas I grew up in, (still live in) and worked in. I think I would enjoy to read more by this author.

Thank You so much for sharing this with me EllyBird. I can't believe I've had this book on my shelf for a year! Sorry. I will hopefully be surprising another BookCrosser with this book (as a RABCK) next week...

Sending this as a surprise Xmas RABCK (along with 3 others) to RedFox5. Hope you enjoy these!

Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for 2013! xXx

I first heard about this book when Waterstone had it in their list of great books for 2011. It seemed like something I would like so stuck it on the wishlist :) Thank you for all the books and I hope you have a very happy christmas and a fab new year.

For some reason, I thought this was fiction. When I realised it wasn't, I was expecting it to be dry and bogged down by dates. It wasn't like that at all. This is a really interesting real life murder mystery.

The murder at Road Hill House is enough to keep turning those pages but Kate adds so much more than that. We get various other crimes that happen around the time, crime that Whicher was himself involved with. And a bonus for book lovers is that she tells the story of detective fiction and how this murder was recreated in best sellers.

She also made me think about something I had never thought of before, the class of a policeman. A working class man, investigating someone of the middle class, heavens no! I wonder if in some circles it's still frowned upon? People say class doesn't exist any more but it bloody does. It's not something out in the open but is felt sometimes by off hand remarks people make.

I also liked that she followed the other family members from Road Hill House until their deaths. I'm not 100% convinced of Constance's confession. I understand her motives but I don't understand why her half sisters would still be in contact with her? And let her around their children unless they thought she was innocent or they knew something we didn't.

Overall a fascinating look at a Victorian murder , a book well worth staying up late to finish.

Happy Reading and welcome to Bookcrossing :)