Community Reviews
Advanced Reading copy recieved as part of the Penguin Proof Reading group. Lovely Hardback copy.
There is the odd typographical error (mainly around pages 365/366) but as this is an ARC, then it's a small and almost expected event.
Right, onto the book
Set in Victorian London still recovering from Jack the Ripper, where children are still being sent up chimneys by the chimneysweeps, the Metropolitan police are trying to get public confidence, and someone is killing Policemen.
The book deals with a police service starting out in a world that doesnt trust them, there is no concept of profiling or Serial Killers. CSI this isnt. Fingerprints are only just being "discovered". There is no DNA, blood analysis, mobile phones and no cars in the car pool.
There was some wording (e.g. "gaining closure" over a death) which I'm not entirely sure was in use in late 19th Century London.
Once I settled down to read, it was paced well. Couple of threads that were started but which didnt tie up (e.g Day's wife looks like she's going to get involved more, but that peters out......do have to admit this book only goes over three days so if it had gone longer there might have worked out different).
On the whole easy and enjoyable book and this was an excellent debut novel
There is the odd typographical error (mainly around pages 365/366) but as this is an ARC, then it's a small and almost expected event.
Right, onto the book
Set in Victorian London still recovering from Jack the Ripper, where children are still being sent up chimneys by the chimneysweeps, the Metropolitan police are trying to get public confidence, and someone is killing Policemen.
The book deals with a police service starting out in a world that doesnt trust them, there is no concept of profiling or Serial Killers. CSI this isnt. Fingerprints are only just being "discovered". There is no DNA, blood analysis, mobile phones and no cars in the car pool.
There was some wording (e.g. "gaining closure" over a death) which I'm not entirely sure was in use in late 19th Century London.
Once I settled down to read, it was paced well. Couple of threads that were started but which didnt tie up (e.g Day's wife looks like she's going to get involved more, but that peters out......do have to admit this book only goes over three days so if it had gone longer there might have worked out different).
On the whole easy and enjoyable book and this was an excellent debut novel
