Cathy Pegau

Charlotte Brody, suffragette, and journalist have come to the town Cordova in Alaska to get away from her past. her brother Micahel is a doctor in town and she has plans to write about life at the last frontier, Cordova a place where people come to start over. But she hardly has time to settle in the town before a prostitute is murdered. And, Charlotte isn't one to back down from finding out the truth and find the killer...

I admit that the cover is partly the reason to why I wanted to read this book. That and reading about a suffragette in Alaska. I just wish that the book and not strayed into the romance genre. I mean I do not mind a bit of romance in books, but this was a little too much for my taste and too early. From the first moment, Charlotte met deputy Eddington was it clear where this was going. I would have preferred the book to focus on Charlotte, her past, the murder and her relationship with her brother than flirting with the deputy.

This book made me think of the Murdock Mysteries tv-series and that's not a bad thing. Unfortunately, deputy Eddington isn't anything like Murdock, but if he were then perhaps I would have enjoyed the romance part of the story better. I think one of the reasons I had problems with the romance or the budding romance since a kiss is hardly a relationship is that I felt it was too soon and that it had a too big part of the story. I just failed to find their relationship interesting and that's make reading this book a bit problematic. Because no matter how interesting a book is, is it hard to enjoy it completely when it's dragged down by what I feel is uninteresting flirtation. That made the book feel like more a historical romance than historical mystery.

The story in itself it's not bad, I had my suspicion half-way through the book how it would end, but I'm glad to say that Cathy Pegau managed to surprise me with the ending. The book was a quick read and it felt more like a cozy mystery than a serious historical. But that was OK. It was what a needed at the moment.

And, I came to enjoy the book despite the romance part and that Charlotte had a tendency to be drawn to trouble. I especially liked the setting of the book, the city Cordova, a long way from civilization, but still not a total outback.

Thanks to Kensington Books and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!… (meer)

Charlotte Brody, suffragette, and journalist have come to the town Cordova in Alaska to get away from her past. her brother Micahel is a doctor in town and she has plans to write about life at the last frontier, Cordova a place where people come to start over. But she hardly has time to settle in the town before a prostitute is murdered. And, Charlotte isn't one to back down from finding out the truth and find the killer...

I admit that the cover is partly the reason to why I wanted to read this book. That and reading about a suffragette in Alaska. I just wish that the book and not strayed into the romance genre. I mean I do not mind a bit of romance in books, but this was a little too much for my taste and too early. From the first moment, Charlotte met deputy Eddington was it clear where this was going. I would have preferred the book to focus on Charlotte, her past, the murder and her relationship with her brother than flirting with the deputy.

This book made me think of the Murdock Mysteries tv-series and that's not a bad thing. Unfortunately, deputy Eddington isn't anything like Murdock, but if he were then perhaps I would have enjoyed the romance part of the story better. I think one of the reasons I had problems with the romance or the budding romance since a kiss is hardly a relationship is that I felt it was too soon and that it had a too big part of the story. I just failed to find their relationship interesting and that's make reading this book a bit problematic. Because no matter how interesting a book is, is it hard to enjoy it completely when it's dragged down by what I feel is uninteresting flirtation. That made the book feel like more a historical romance than historical mystery.

The story in itself it's not bad, I had my suspicion half-way through the book how it would end, but I'm glad to say that Cathy Pegau managed to surprise me with the ending. The book was a quick read and it felt more like a cozy mystery than a serious historical. But that was OK. It was what a needed at the moment.

And, I came to enjoy the book despite the romance part and that Charlotte had a tendency to be drawn to trouble. I especially liked the setting of the book, the city Cordova, a long way from civilization, but still not a total outback.

Thanks to Kensington Books and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!… (meer)

Charlotte Brody is a smart, sassy, modern woman and reminds me of detectives from the Golden Age of mystery novels, which is of course when she lives. Her behaviour is sometimes a bit too reckless to be believable – would someone take such risks in a small town like that? But this is fiction, after all. Even though I haven't read the first book in the series, this one works as a standalone and sometimes I prefer not to get too caught up on introductory details. The mystery was a bit too obvious, but nevertheless I enjoyed the book for all its period details and the eccentric cast of characters.

Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book in a GoodRead's giveaway.… (meer)