A review by nadia
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French

dark informative mysterious slow-paced

3.5

I found the setting of this story, and this history around it, fascinating but I struggled to stay engaged with this audiobook — it might have been the narrator's voice... I also struggled to keep track of the cast of characters/different factions, which is not really a fault of the author, and Paul French did do a decent job of trying to remind you of who everyone was. I felt the book picked up steam a lot more once
Werner started his own private investigation into his daughter's murder
, but I still found myself drifting in and out of focus.

Also, I knew nothing about this case going in...so I'm not sure how I feel about how Paul French approached the final sections of his book...
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