What Janine is Reading and Listening to, Fall 2019

Death and the Harlot by Georgina Clarke

I read 39% of this book historical mystery set in mid-eighteenth century London before quitting. The period detail seems quite good and the book is pretty page-turning but unfortunately, the heroines motivations dont make sense.

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Lizzie Hardwicke is a sex worker in a high-class brothel (or at least as high class as bawdy houses got back in 1759) in London and one of her clients is murdered. Mr. George Reed wasnt a particularly great guy; Lizzie only...