A review by nonna7
Judgment of the Grave by Sarah Stewart Taylor

5.0

I've fallen in love with this short lived series and have two more to read. This is such an interesting and literate series of books. I guess I can understand why it apparently didn't do well. The author is now writing childrens' books. So unless she lost interest in the series, I can only assume that it didn't sell well. That's too bad because a reader can learn a lot. Sweeney St. George is an art historian whose specialty is grave stones. She is in Concorde researching Josiah Whiting whose grave stones were very artistic and much more unusual than a lot of his contemporaries. When the body of one of the re-enactors is found, it is apparently the body of a professor and historian who was researching the same person as Sweeney but from a totally different angle. Then it turns out it's NOT his body, but someone else. The book features Detective Quinn whose wife committed suicide leaving him with an infant daughter. Soon Sweeney finds herself embroiled in the investigation. It's a fascinating story with a lot of rich detail. It's really too bad that it had to end.