A review by michelleful
Mad Hatter's Holiday by Peter Lovesey

4.0

I've just been watching the TV series Cribb and decided to check out the books it's based on. I already knew who the murderer was going to be, but this was an interesting read all the same. The level of background detail in these books, set in the late Victorian era, is quite remarkable and sets the scene and atmosphere very well. In this particular case, the background is the fashionable seaside resort of Brighton, a woman has been found chopped up to pieces, and Cribb has to figure out not only who killed her, but who she is in the first place.