📚’Social climbing scoundrels, unscrupulous journalists, class wars and weary detectives’. @TerryTyler4 reviews #VictorianCrime Pride & Pestilence by Carol Hedges @carolJhedges

Today’s team review is from Terry.

Terry blogs here https://terrytylerbookreviews.blogspot.com/

Rosie’s Book Review Team

Terry has been reading Pride & Pestilence by Carol Hedges.

5 stars.

Eleventh book in the series, and I have not given any of them less than five stars. Pride and Pestilence sits up there with the rest, a hugely enjoyable tale of social climbing scoundrels, unscrupulous journalists, class wars and weary detectives aiming to sort the urgent from the time-wasting, the villains from the victims.

Detective Leo Stride has now retired, but finds himself all at sea; researching old police records for the purpose of writing his memoirs is a welcome escape from bumbling around helplessly in the social and domestic world inhabited by his wife, and also provides an irresistible opportunity to sidle into in some of Cully and Greig’s new cases. Is he still needed? Of course he is!

The discovery of a plague pit within a building site sparks off rumours of a resurgence of the pestilence of 200 years earlier, and the way in which the tabloid press use this to instil fear into the public (and sell more papers) is most entertaining, and indeed echoes events of a more recent time.

It’s great. Loved it. Read the whole series, starting now!

Book description:

An horrific discovery on a Whitechapel construction site suddenly brings the prospect of death and disaster to the whole of 1870 London. In a race against time, the Scotland Yard detective division must stop the city from descending into chaos. It will take every ounce of their ingenuity to track down the individuals behind what might prove to be the greatest threat to life and limb for centuries. Elsewhere, London’s only female private detective, Miss Lucy Landseer is tasked with tracking down an abandoned child, who is set to inherit a huge fortune upon the death of her mother. Will she manage to find the lost heiress in time to stop the inheritance from going to her unscrupulous uncle Jasper Broxton? In this eleventh outing for the celebrated Victorian detectives of Scotland Yard, the reader is once again enticed into a world of shadowy alleyways, squalid courts and flickering gas-lit streets, where rich and poor, good and evil rub shoulders.

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