Expected publication: January 9th 2018 by Crooked Lane Books
304 pages | Goodreads Description: ❝A photographer in Whitechapel, London, Sarah Bain is also a private detective—skilled at capturing others’ dark secrets, and expert at keeping her own.
When a wealthy banker, Sir Gerald Mariner, posts a handsome reward for finding his missing infant, all of London joins in, hoping to win that money for themselves. Usually discouraged by a saturated market, Sarah is instead curiously allured as she realizes the case hits much closer to home than she first thought. As she dives in, she discovers a photograph of baby Robin Mariner and his mother. But it eerily resembles the post-mortem photographs Sarah, herself, takes of deceased children posed to look as if they were alive.
Now it’s unclear whether the kidnapping is a cover-up to hide the reality of his disappearance, or if it’s truly a cry for help. The clock is ticking and Sarah must uncover the truth before her past catches up to her in A Mortal Likeness, the gripping follow-up to bestselling author Laura Joh Rowland’s The Ripper’s Shadow. ❞ (end of description)
MY RATING: ★★★★☆ (4/5)
REVIEW
This is a novel that takes place during Victorian times in London. The main character is photographer and private detective Sarah Bain. She and her business partner Hugh have been retained by a wealthy man to investigate the kidnapping of his youngest son.
Sarah and Hugh then embark on the task of investigating the person responsible for the disappearance in a case where every family member and acquaintance is a suspect.
Therefore, crimes were more challenging to solve and people had to rely more on instinct than hard-data.
Overall, I enjoyed the novel and recommend it to readers of historical fiction and mysteries.
Thanks to the author and the Crooked Lane for providing me with a copy of this publication in exchange for an honest review.