Lizzie Martin (5 books in series)
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review 1: Oct. 1867 - 4 months after the BNA Act came into effect - Waterloo Bridge - where Bryant & May meet every evening in modern time. We bring our whole minds to a book and it colours our reaction to it. In this detective mystery we have prostitutes strangled and dropped in the Tham...
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review 1: Yet another Victorian age spinster and detective duo series. However, they seem to be low on the sexual tension-o-meter. Lizzie is eminently practical, looking on their relationship (they are "walking out" together at this point) as unsatisfactory in that her beau is often and wi...
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review 1: I hate to say it but I was disappointed with this book, and after reading the first book in the Lizzie Martin/Ben Ross series my expectations were probably too high. I loved everything about the first book (A Rare Interest in Corpses) and could wax lyrical about it but this book ...
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review 1: J'ai retrouvé avec plaisir Lizzie et Ben dans ce second opus à la hauteur du premier. Au début du roman, nous découvrons que les relations entre ces deux là ont progressé même si elles restent freinées par les exigences du métier de Ben. Du côté de Lizzie le torchon brûle avec Mr...
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review 1: Having never read anything by this author, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. The author does a nice job of evoking the period feeling of London, giving enough information to allow you to glimpse what it might have been like to live in those times withou...