I'm so enthusiastic about this new series! Victoria Thompson has written a Gaslight series. the books take place in the 1890's in NYC. The main character is Sarah Decker Brandt, widow of a doctor and herself a midwife. She is from one of the 400--the NYC old money high society list of VIP families, but she's estranged from them and living on her own.
A young woman who lives in the boarding house where Sarah delivered her most recent baby is murdered and it turns out Sarah knows her from her former high society life. This leads Sarah to assist police detective Frank Malloy in unraveling the mystery of why a wealthy young woman from a good family is dead in a seedy boarding house.
The book was fast-paced and full of twists and turns. It was not light hearted--it was pretty dark and full of commentary on the social strata in that era of history in New York. Some of the dialogue was a bit heavy handed and cheesy but over all, the book was interesting and totally held my interest. I'm very much looking forward to the rest of this series.
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