A review by whatsmacksaid
Of Manners and Murder by Anastasia Hastings

4.0

Three and a half stars rounded up. I very nearly quit at the halfway mark as the story leaned away from Violet and Sephora's relationship and into the admittedly well constructed mystery. I just found the sisters' clashes far more interesting, though my boredom was rectified at about the two-thirds mark with

Spoiler

another attempt on Violet's life

and how the action picked up quite a bit after that.

I won't be buying a copy of this one or its sequel, but I'll certainly check my library for the latter.

ETA: if you want to enjoy this, you'll just have to mentally set aside some of the shitty things the British and Americans did during the Victorian period.

Spoiler

Sephora's inheritance comes from a tea plantation, and Violet's love interest is a pinkerton.