I received this ARC to participate in the TBR & Beyond Tour but it did not arrive in time so it's a tad late. Thank you so much to the publisher for sending the ARC

I'm putting Teri Bailey Black on my auto-read authors list after this. Both her historical mysteries have had such strong female characters doing things society doesn't totally deem appropriate for women. Tons of twists and turns in the murder mystery while developing several characters and a setting. She somehow avoids large info-dumping and making several characters seem totally good and others totally guilty. I had an inkling as to who the murderer was (and I was right for once) but there was so much explanation and reasoning at the end that I had completely not picked up on until it was explained. I find a lot of YA mysteries make it so ridiculously obvious when something is playing a roll...Black does not do that. You spend most of the book deciding what was world and character building...and what was a hint.