laural444 's review for:

The Thief Taker by Janet Gleeson

5.0

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Normally I don't go near the mysteries, and stick to the rooms of fiction in my gargantuan library. Luckily, this book was in the fiction, rather than listed under "mystery". Mrs. Meadowes (widowed, with one child) works as a cook for a family who deals in silver. After a murder and an expensive thing is stolen, she is the one the family turns to to track down the item. Though I found it odd that the family would ask their cook to have anything to do with a murder mystery, it was so hard to stop reading this book that I stayed up until about two a.m. to finish it.

I loved the descriptions of the food and all the historical details.