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The House on Vesper Sands
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Publisher's Summary
With all the wit of a Jane Austen novel and a case as beguiling as any in Sherlock Holmes' casebook, Paraic O'Donnell introduces a detective duo for the ages and slowly unlocks the secrets of a startling Victorian mystery.
London, 1893: High up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world of Paraic O'Donnell's Victorian-inspired mystery, the story of a city cloaked in shadow but burning with questions: Why does the seamstress choose to jump out of that window? Why is there a cryptic message sewn into her skin? And how is she connected to a rash of missing girls, all of whom seem to have disappeared under similar circumstances?
On the case is Gideon Bliss, a young Cambridge dropout who is in love with one of the missing girls, and his partner, Inspector Cutter, a detective as sharp and committed to his work as he is wryly hilarious. There's also Octavia Hillingdon, a young reporter determined to tell stories that feel important despite her employer's preference that she write a women's society column.
By turns clever, surprising, and impossible to pause, The House on Vesper Sands peels back the mystery layer by layer, offering in the strange undertow of late 19th-century London a startling glimpse at the secrets we all hold inside us.
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- Genevieve Paquette
- 2021-02-02
great
This turned out to be nothing at all what I suspected, but I still ended up enjoying it. The supernatural twist a third of the way in came out of nowhere, and suddenly the entire story took a sharp turn. I'm not mad, it was still interesting, but, and maybe I have to go over it again because I missed it, there was never any real closure to the first suspicious death, the one mentioned in the blurb. Do we ever really find out why those words were stitched on her skin?
I did listen to this at work, so I could easily have missed it during a break in concentration. Even so, that storyline felt very disjointed from what came next, even after we discover the link.
But yeah, I did enjoy it, though. Solid writing, interesting characters, and some unexpected but compelling world building. (I do think the reporter character was underutilized a bit, but if there is ever a sequel, and it hinted at it, I suspect this might be rectified.)
It was a really unique read, even for me (a connoisseur, haha, of that very specific genre of historical serial killer mysteries with a paranormal element).
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