The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Murder by Stephen Cox

The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Murder

 by Stephen Cox



The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder was self published on 1st September. My thanks to Stephen for sending me a copy to review nad to Random Things Tours for inviting me onto the tour.





Synopsis

London 1881. Can two crooked women stop a murder?

Extravagant medium Mrs Ashton and her lover, blunt working-class Mrs Bradshaw, run a spiritualist scam. Mrs Ashton secretly reads minds.

Believing that Mrs Ashton is genuine, grieving Lady Violet craves the truth behind her mother’s untimely death. But Lady Violet’s powerful husband Sir Charles hates spiritualists. Has he killed before?

Uncovering this MP’s wicked crimes will put all three women in terrible danger…

To solve a shocking murder, look both sides of the grave.






My Thoughts


This is the first time I have come across Stephen Cox and I found it rather a strange read at first. I have to be honest I stopped and started twice with this novel , mainly due to the fact that I found it incredibly slow for the first part of the book and I like a book to grab me and drag me into it’s storyline straight away, or at its worst within the first couple of chapters. It was only after reading the reviews for previous works by Stephen , namely Our Child of the Stars and Our Child of Two Worlds that I decided to give it another go and I am glad that I did as it certainly starts to build up speed and suspense as Mrs Ashton and Mrs Bradshaw dig deeper into solving what happened to Lady Violet’s mother in law and everything else that you will uncover along the way !!!!!!!!

I liked the Victorian setting in London in 1881 with a lesbian couple as the leads and it does take you down different avenues, turning up some surprises on the way that you will follow in earnest and reach a finale that you certainly couldn’t have forecast when you started the book.

So yes I would recommend it as a book to stick with in the beginning as it does deliver by the end and I will be looking out for more of Stephen’s work in the future.




About Stephen






Stephen Cox is a writer living in London. He’d read every Holmes, Christie, and Sayers before he was 21 and did Holmes fanfic in school. He has also read the Moonstone six times. With a science degree he has always been a fan of history and the imagination


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