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dvallee's review against another edition
4.0
I really like the Molly Murphy character. This is number three in the series and I think this is my favorite thus far.
rjsthumbelina's review against another edition
4.0
I always enjoy Molly Murphy. A strong heroine, engaging mysteries with plots I never unravel, fantastic historical setting, and at least a dollop of romance. Though I will say I'm not sold on Molly's current love triangle. I also love that theres always importance placed on friendships. This one tasks Molly with finding a missing girl who eloped with her bad boy bf from Ireland, and also with finding out who is smuggling designs across sweatshops. As she gets more entwined, Molly also tries to help improve conditions for the girls working in the sweatshops, which I also loved to see her taking up that cause.
tough_cookie's review against another edition
4.0
Private investigator Molly Murphy is tired of handling divorce cases in her fledging business. It simply isn't her cup of tea, and after her latest assignment ends in embarrassment, she reaffirms her belief and decides to pursue the cases she originally intended to: helping people find lost relatives. In the mean time, she is given an assignment by a sweatshop owner who wants her to go undercover and discover a spy amongst his workers. Not long after she begins the case, she receives a letter from a retired major in Ireland searching for his daughter who he believes ran off to America with one of his stable boys. As Molly does her best to juggle the two cases, she soon finds that the two might not be completely separate.
Over the course of her investigations, she makes the acquaintance of a socialist writer named Nell, who somewhat grudgingly agrees to help her with her missing-persons case, and Jacob Singer, a member of the Hebrew Trades Union which helps workers to form their own unions. With her mind determined to forget Daniel, who still has not broken off his engagement, Molly finds new prospects in Jacob. Of course, she doesn't have a great deal of time to spend considering her options when she is trying to infiltrate a rival sweatshop, getting involved in workers' protests, and doing her best to take care of Seamus and his two children. With so much going on, it's a wonder poor Molly doesn't break under the pressure! But that's not the kind of girl she is, which is good because she goes up against many negative forces in this third installment. Given how quickly I read it (in about a day), I think it's safe to assume that I loved it and will continue on in the series.
Over the course of her investigations, she makes the acquaintance of a socialist writer named Nell, who somewhat grudgingly agrees to help her with her missing-persons case, and Jacob Singer, a member of the Hebrew Trades Union which helps workers to form their own unions. With her mind determined to forget Daniel, who still has not broken off his engagement, Molly finds new prospects in Jacob. Of course, she doesn't have a great deal of time to spend considering her options when she is trying to infiltrate a rival sweatshop, getting involved in workers' protests, and doing her best to take care of Seamus and his two children. With so much going on, it's a wonder poor Molly doesn't break under the pressure! But that's not the kind of girl she is, which is good because she goes up against many negative forces in this third installment. Given how quickly I read it (in about a day), I think it's safe to assume that I loved it and will continue on in the series.
alexecho's review against another edition
adventurous
relaxing
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.5
wordsofclover's review against another edition
4.0
Narrated by Lara Hutchinson.
This is the third book in the Molly Murphy Mystery series and follows Molly, a young Irish woman in New York, as she takes on some new commissions in her new job as a PI. This time around Molly goes undercover at a garment factory to find a spy stealing designs but ends up getting involved in the worker's fight for better conditions. At the same time, Molly is also looking for the daughter of a wealthy man who ran away from Ireland with an employee of her father's estate, and the two jobs may be connected.
I really enjoyed this installment of Molly's journey. I feel like a lot happened in this one and we not only got some adventures with Molly that saw her get in all sorts of trouble as usual including being mistaken for a prostitute and a violent protester on two different occasions but also a look into what life was life for the poor immigrants in New York forced to take any measly job they could so survive in the land of the free. I feel this book highlighted more so than the other books, the problems Molly could have being a female PI in a time when it was strange for a woman to be so independent. Like I mentioned above, at one point while she is spying on someone she has been employed to follow, she is arrested by policemen for simply being a woman alone and out after dark. She also, again, has several men tell her how stupid her dreams are and how she should give up the dangerous work of being a PI because as a woman, it would be impossible for her to be successful.
I also enjoyed the entrance of a male character that finally was able to divert Molly's attentions from police captain Daniel O' Sullivan. Jakob was extremely cute, and though not enamoured by Molly's PI job wasn't as forceful about it as Daniel. It's obvious Molly will end up with Daniel at some stage but I'm glad to see she's not waiting around like a lost puppy. With Jakob, we also get to see the difficulties of religious differences and cultural differences with Jakob being from a strict Yiddish background and the problems he and Molly may face because of this.
This book kept me interested and entertained though as usual a lot of Molly's success comes from a lot of a luck and some bad decisions that lead to surprising discoveries rather than any real skill. I really like the narrator Lara Hutchinson who gives Molly a really unique voice and does other characters and accents really well (I just realised how much I love Hutchinson having started the next book in the series which has a new narrator and she's awful.)
This is the third book in the Molly Murphy Mystery series and follows Molly, a young Irish woman in New York, as she takes on some new commissions in her new job as a PI. This time around Molly goes undercover at a garment factory to find a spy stealing designs but ends up getting involved in the worker's fight for better conditions. At the same time, Molly is also looking for the daughter of a wealthy man who ran away from Ireland with an employee of her father's estate, and the two jobs may be connected.
I really enjoyed this installment of Molly's journey. I feel like a lot happened in this one and we not only got some adventures with Molly that saw her get in all sorts of trouble as usual including being mistaken for a prostitute and a violent protester on two different occasions but also a look into what life was life for the poor immigrants in New York forced to take any measly job they could so survive in the land of the free. I feel this book highlighted more so than the other books, the problems Molly could have being a female PI in a time when it was strange for a woman to be so independent. Like I mentioned above, at one point while she is spying on someone she has been employed to follow, she is arrested by policemen for simply being a woman alone and out after dark. She also, again, has several men tell her how stupid her dreams are and how she should give up the dangerous work of being a PI because as a woman, it would be impossible for her to be successful.
I also enjoyed the entrance of a male character that finally was able to divert Molly's attentions from police captain Daniel O' Sullivan. Jakob was extremely cute, and though not enamoured by Molly's PI job wasn't as forceful about it as Daniel. It's obvious Molly will end up with Daniel at some stage but I'm glad to see she's not waiting around like a lost puppy. With Jakob, we also get to see the difficulties of religious differences and cultural differences with Jakob being from a strict Yiddish background and the problems he and Molly may face because of this.
This book kept me interested and entertained though as usual a lot of Molly's success comes from a lot of a luck and some bad decisions that lead to surprising discoveries rather than any real skill. I really like the narrator Lara Hutchinson who gives Molly a really unique voice and does other characters and accents really well (I just realised how much I love Hutchinson having started the next book in the series which has a new narrator and she's awful.)
dashausfrau's review against another edition
2.0
Maybe I can pick up this series later or on audiobook.
Molly is a bit too plucky for real life right now.
Molly is a bit too plucky for real life right now.
jamiereads's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
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