A review by fazila
Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

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Daughters Of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson is a dark historical murder/mystery/thriller set in 1780's England. I recently found out after reading the book, that this actually has characters from her previous book Blood & Sugar. We are following Caroline Corsham, a wealthy woman who is determined to find the identity of the murderer of Lady Lucy Loveless. Initially, upon discovering the brutally attacked woman, Caro realizes the Lady's attack was planned, and before she could get answers, Lucy dies in Caro's arms. The investigation gets picked up by Bow Street Runners and they stop s it when they realize the real identity of the woman who was murdered. The mystery surrounding Lucy's death deepens with the Bow Street Runner's reluctance to do the required search and their negligence of evidence of foul play. Caro wants to bring the killer forward and sets out on the path to do it by hiring the thief-taker, Peregrine Child. With each step in the right direction, the Lords, and authorities covering up their tracks things start to get more dangerous for Caro and Child. Can they bring justice to Lucy or will they find themselves conceding in defeat in their search for the killer?

Overall, this was a slow-paced historical fiction that will captivate you with the atmospheric setting of Georgian London and keep you glued to the book by the themes of social, class, political, and gender divisions. It's a murder mystery that will be the perfect partner for your night-time reading routine. I gave the book 4.5 stars and highly recommend it if you love slow-paced historical murder mysteries.