Lady of Ashes by Christine Trent

August 27, 2021

Lady of Ashes by Christine Trent

London 1861 - Violet Morgan is one of the few female undertakers in Victorian London. She owns a funeral parlor and service with her husband, but he has lost interest in the business. Her husband Graham bears a grudge against the United States and has gotten involved in a scheme to sell arms to the Confederate South. Meanwhile, Violet receives the commission of a lifetime: to arrange the funeral of a friend of Queen Victoria. At the same time, she begins investigating a series of deaths among London's poor.

Not a bad book, just a jumble of ideas that's not sure what it wants to be. Mystery? Historical fiction? Romance? Although the concept intrigued me, I don't plan on continuing with this series.

Funerals in the Victorian era were elaborate affairs, even among the poor