While I was on vacation last week, I did actually read a book. (I read others too, but the winner this time is the one I read on vacation.)
Sarah Brandt, the debutante-turned-midwife in 1900s Manhattan, admittedly stretches credulity as a main character based on her bio sheet alone. Yet somehow author Victoria Thompson makes you want to believe in her.
Once you're following Sarah and her family and friends on an adventure (which, naturally, involves a murder or two) you don't even think about the implausibility of her existence.
Murder on Sisters' Row follows the story of a "fallen" woman. Notable not only for a well-spun mystery, Thompson's books are well-researched and include a nod to the morality and laws of the time period.
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