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The Devil's Ribbon (2011)

by D.E. Meredith(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0312557698 (ISBN13: 9780312557690)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Minotaur Books

series

Hatton and Roumande Mystery

review 1: I'm really enjoying the second outing by DE. Im drawn into the twists and turns of is dark, and forensic gold mine. I enjoy this writer.. She never overwrites, and the characters are never one dimensional. Unlike authors such as Cornwell, this book is rich and multilayered. No silly scientific acronyms here. Just a ripping mystery, with smart turns and fantastics twists. Policital and well reasearched,and the relationship between Hatton and Roumanade is always entertaining! I would love to see this book made into a tv series... Very much recommend.
review 2: This is the second book in the Hatton and Roumande Mystery series. Adolphus Hatton is a forensic scientist/pathologist and Albert Roumande is his assistant. The setting is 1858 London in July. They are i... moren the middle of a terrible heatwave and cholera epidemic in the poorest Irish neighborhoods.Tempers are high in England following the great famine in Ireland. It's the period of the birth of Irish nationalism and the rise of the Fenians and the Irish Brotherhood A series of violent murders erupts in the city, each with a mysterious calling card left. Riots and a bombing also are going on. Are they related? What do they have to do with Ardara Ireland? How is Father O'Brian involved?This is an excellently written period novel! Ms. Meredith's research is fantastic! You have the burgeoning new field of forensics, the powdered keg of the times following the famine, the widespread drug use of the time, a cholera outbreak, an early Scotland Yard. What more could you want?The sheer force of the ugliness of the time, the poverty, the disease, the filth, the opium abuse of this time comes across vividly in this novel. At first I didn't really like it. It certainly doesn't take you to a lovely, gentle English countryside! The Scotland Yard Inspector was a despicable, ugly, drug addict that really turned my stomach. It took me a while to get attached to Dr. Hatton, but somehow slowly as I read he did wheedle his way in! I ended up really enjoying this book and wanting to read more. I highly recommend it! less

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