The Pickwick Murders
2021 • 320 pages

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In a reimagining of Charles Dickens’ classic The Pickwick Papers, Heather Redmond’s fourth Victorian-era mystery in the Dickens of a Crime series finds a young Charles tossed into Newgate Prison for a murder he didn’t commit, and his fiancée Kate Hogarth striving to clear his name… London, January 1836: Just weeks before the release of his first book, Charles is intrigued by an invitation to join the exclusive Lightning Club. But his initiation in a basement maze takes a wicked turn when he stumbles upon the corpse of Samuel Pickwick, the club’s president. With the victim’s blood literally on his hands, Charles is locked away in notorious Newgate Prison. Now it’s up to Kate to keep her framed fiancé from the hangman’s noose. To solve this labyrinthine mystery, she is forced to puzzle her way through a fiendish series of baffling riddles sent to her in anonymous poison pen letters. With the help of family and friends, she must keep her wits about her to corner the real killer—before time runs out and Charles Dickens meets a dead end…

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#4 in A Dickens of a Crime

A Dickens of a Crime is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2019 with contributions by Heather Redmond.

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Grave Expectations
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A Christmas Carol Murder
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DNF @50%

I really wanted to love this one. I mean, the cover is beautiful, and the plot sounded intriguing. Alas, it just wasn't working for me. I found it SO slow and boring. I finally had to throw in the towel at 50%. They all can't be 5 star reads, right?

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