Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale

12 reviews

fyre_flies's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Blood, Child abuse, Sexism, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

kaanda's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious slow-paced

3.0

The case this book explores is both dark and puzzling. The real life case is told as if it was a detective fiction alike Sherlock. As promising as this format was I personally found the book a bit long and written a bit clunky. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Misogyny, Blood, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Violence, Grief, Ableism, and Child death

el90's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness

directorpurry's review against another edition

informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death

laurajeangrace's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Miscarriage and Sexism

lainibop's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Murder

sailorsdelight's review against another edition

challenging informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

Extremely engaging, and a great look into mid-century Victorian life! Excellent reading for anyone interested in the beginnings of detection work.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Blood, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

angelfireeast24's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

Minor: Terminal illness, Miscarriage, Animal death, Infidelity, and Domestic abuse

lagaialettrice's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Child abuse, Death, and Murder

booksnbakes's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious medium-paced

4.75

Excellent, highly detailed and researched. The writing style makes even the most info dump-y sequences easy to read, and I’m very impressed that such factual and impartial writing managed to keep the mystery going until its conclusion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Murder

Moderate: Blood and Grief

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Pregnancy