A review by saranel81
Deadly Proof: A Victorian San Francisco Mystery by M. Louisa Locke

2.0

I feel about this installment of this series much as I did with the third: meh. The focus again deviates from Annie and Nate, who are definitely the more interesting characters, even though they still seem to be incapable of communicating appropriately with each other. Now that they're engaged to be married, one would think they'd gotten beyond that! Laura also suffers from the same problems she did in the previous book, suggesting she's incapable of change. I find her to be more annoying than anything else. And again, the mystery was fairly easy to solve and had no sense of urgency whatsoever. It just meanders around until someone comes up with the obvious answer. I enjoyed the first two books of this series, and I'm sorry to see that it's not living up to that great start.

Also, the editing here was very lax. There are numerous and obvious grammar errors throughout the book, something I would expect of a final draft but not a completed manuscript.