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This review won’t be in my normal format as I find it hard to review mystery books as I don’t want to give anything away!

I did really enjoy this book. It literally had me guessing the whole time. I had absolutely no idea who the murder was until that person was confessing at 95% of the way through the book. This book kept me hooked and I was so intrigued by all the characters. There were scandals and secrets at every turn and that keeps you on your toes!

I enjoyed our main character, Charles Dickens, however, I don’t know anything about the real Charles Dickens, so I was unable to actually make a connection except the name. But as I said I did enjoy him. I liked that he was an amateur of sorts. I’m used to reading Hercule Poirot mysteries and he is a pro at it. But in this one young Charles was just taking any hint he could get and he changed his mind nearly every chapter about what things were important and who was suspected.
Other characters I liked were Fred who is Charles brother. He was funny and interesting and I think that was because he was that bit younger. William was another interesting character that I enjoyed. Also, Miss Kate Hogarth was enjoyable. I loved that we had a female of that era that was able to come in and help and even though some of the males tried to think of her as too delicate to hear about such things she proved them wrong. Julie was awesome too. I liked that she was a bit rowdier and modern compared to most of these old-fashioned proper people in the book.

I also enjoyed the setting of the book which was 1835 London. I don’t usually read historical books set that far back as my prefered Historical fiction is WW2 based but I found it very interesting.