Deadly Illumination

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Summary: Deadly Illumination
Review: I found this book not only entertaining, but a delightful window into the Victorian era. The interplay of characters was wonderfully woven into a delightful read that encompassed intrigue, womens rights, poverty and crime and it's punishment or not. Can the wealthy buy their way out of crime? Read and you determine.....

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Summary: Excited by Deadly Illumination
Review: This book is a charming and suspenseful mystery story set mainly in New York City in the early 1890s. It gets off to a quick start when the protagonist, a young woman named Florence and her aunt, Isabella Stuart Gardner (yes, the founder of the museum in Boston, fictionalized), discover a dead body next to an illuminated manuscript in Pierpont Morgan's (yes, THE banker's) library. Pressed by Isabella, Florence becomes a detective compelled to find the murderer as she confronts Morgan, the uppercrust of Manhattan society, and the tawdry underground, too. The suspense builds well, and the climax is surely worth the trip. Kudos to Stier on her first mystery!