I
appreciate this series of novels based on true crimes from the past.
This one deals with grave robbing, a practice used by physicians
doing research and schools training doctors. Bodies were always at a
premium and grave robbing was frequently deemed necessary.
The
novel got off to a bit of a rough start for me. It took a while for
me to understand the context and the direction of the plot. How Josie
became apparently dead and survived being buried is still a mystery
to me. I would have appreciated more background information there.
Once the novel got going it was okay but it did seem to bog down in
the middle.
I
felt a weakness of this novel was that it dealt with the general
crime of grave robbing rather than a more specific crime and
criminal, as the others in this series. I think that made for a much
broader story line than I would have liked. I liked the other two
novels in the series much more than this one. The strength of the
novel was the historical information about cotton mills and the women
who worked there.
My
rating: 3/5 stars.
Angie
Dicken is a member of ACFW, is the mother of four and works in adult
ministry. She has written two previous historical novels. You can
find out more at www.angiedicken.com.
Barbour,
256 pages.
I
received a complimentary egalley of this book from the publisher. My
comments are an independent and honest review.
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