I thought this was going to be a fun, cosy crime..and it is but goodness it’s SO much more!! What a fantastic insight into 1917 Adelaide..all the class prejudices and such atrocious sexism, all the worry with ww1 ongoing, sly grog and prostitution…I loved every page and every storyline. This is such a page turner of a novel. I loved meeting Kate Cocks (South Australia’s first equally paid police woman) with her ‘three feet apart’ cane and really getting an understanding of her being ‘both of her time and ahead of her time’..fascinating…Ethel Bromley is a hoot, I just adored the jujitsu comrade of Kate’s.
I love their partnership and I’m SO hoping for more Petticoat Police Mysteries!!!!!!!
Thanks so much for letting me read the ARC Hachette!!!!
