rachaelinpa 's review for:

The Bedlam Detective by Stephen Gallagher
3.0

This book has an interesting angle, a detective who works for Bedlam, and stumbles across a murder case while investigating a person's sanity, and it was engaging, but it had some issues for me. I found the timely references forced, the women's voting league and a son with autism seemed dropped into the plot line more to prove the author had done his historical homework than for any real plot significance. As the book went on, these blended into the story much better and I would read the next one if this is a series, but I feel that a reader shouldn't be as aware of those idiosyncracies as I was initially.