The Women of Blackmouth Street by Thea Sutton is a historical thriller that is set in the 1890s in London. A fast-paced book that deals with murder, revenge and blackmail along the way.
1890’s London. Strong-willed Georgia Buchanan, a mind doctor and heiress, spends her time with the mad, the bad, and devils incarnate, armed only with her expert understanding of the human psyche.
But when her young, high-profile patient unexpectedly commits suicide, Georgia leaves Boston under a cloud of guilt. Lured to London’s notorious Bedlam asylum, she’s trapped by a vengeful detective and a dangerous anarchist—who know too much about her—into tracking a serial killer of women in the city’s East End.
As Georgia struggles to prevent more women from meeting a violent end, her own secrets and closest ties are stripped bare… With her Harvard mentor, William James, and his sister. With her wealthy, scandalous father. With a troubled patient. All the while the city’s streets reel with carnage and social unrest. Alone and questioning her abilities as the killer closes in, Georgia has one last chance to save the innocent before she confronts the most devastating truth yet.
An exquisitely written book which is twisty and dark as the London streets at that particular time period. The danger is apparent and the tension I felt could have almost been cut with a knife. Georgia is a character who is so far ahead of her time. Her intelligence and determination makes her a worthy adversary. She has no intention of stepping back, no matter what. A graphic story that brings to the fore mental illness, murder and how women were treated back then. To give us such details Thea Sutton has done intensive research and it made me feel like I was there watching these women be treated like nothing.
We see Georgia determined to discover the murderer of the Blackmouth Street women to ease the feelings of guilt she had from losing a patient, as I said nothing will stand in her way, even if it risks her reputation and places her in physical danger too.
A dark story with characters that hold your attention with plenty of historical research done to make this a realistic and quite scary story. One that I really hope has more books to come.
Thanks to Anne Cater of Random Things Tours and Encircle Publications for my copy of this book to bring you my thoughts today
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