2015 Reading Challenge, Book 27: The Somnambulist By Essie Fox

This is a Victorian Gothic mystery or murder mystery I’ve had hanging about in my bookcase for a good while. I put it on my reading challenge list as the whole idea was to expand my reading habits and generally speaking I avoid all Victoriana related things as they’re a little too stylised and misty-eyed. Or else too elaborate and painstaking. I’m not fond basically. Once I started this, however, I got into it fairly easily.

This is the rather complicated story of Phoebe Turner, who uncovers...