Welcome back bookworms! Today, I am on the book tour for Julie Anderson’s The Midnight Man. Thanks to ZooLoo’s Book Tours and Hobeck Books for the gifted book in exchange for my honest review today.
Synopsis
Winter 1946
One cold dark night, as a devastated London shivers through the transition to post-war life, a young nurse goes missing from the South London Hospital for Women & Children. Her body is discovered hours later behind a locked door.
Faye Smith, the hospital canteen manager, joins forces with a mysterious new arrival, Eleanor Peveril, to investigate the case. Determined not to return to the futures laid out for them before the war, the unlikely sleuths must face their own demons and dilemmas as they pursue -The Midnight Man.
BEWARE THE DARKNESS BENEATH
My Review
A brand new series from the mind of Julie Anderson is always going to attract my attention. I have read her previous series the Cassandra Fortune series and I thoroughly enjoyed every book.
The Clapham Trilogy begins with The Midnight Man and it has a cover that definitely shouted ‘read me!’ I knew it would be a story I couldn’t put down. That’s the power of this authors writing for me.
Set in post war London, we follow Faye and Ellie, two women who work at the South London Hospital for women and children. After the body of a nurse is discovered, the police make the rash decision that she was killed by a vagrant passing through Clapham Common. Faye and Ellie decide, enough is enough and embark on a investigative journey to get to the truth.
The time period this book is set in is a time of change, not only are the men returning home from the war but the NHS is on the horizon. Roles are being reversed and we see Faye and Ellie kick against tradition with all their might. I revelled in these two women. Their determination was amazing and I felt like I was with them.
Told by both women in alternating chapters, I became invested so fast. Julie Anderson always creates fascinating characters and this book is no different. The vividness of the setting just cemented the feeling of being tranported back in time.
When I read a book set in the past, I find the quality of the story depends on thorough research. If it isn’t good enough, the story doesn’t gel correctly, or I get jarred out of the time period. This isn’t a problem with The Midnight Man. The research is clearly impeccable, I have to say, I can guarantee this author’s research makes any book she writes come to life.
A historical mystery that had me hooked from the start. Characters that popped from the page and a mystery that I thought I solved until I hadn’t!
Book Links
Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209933310-the-midnight-man
Buy Links https://mybook.to/midnightman-zbt
Julie’s Bio
Julie Anderson is the CWA Dagger listed author of three Whitehall thrillers and a short series of historical adventure stories for young adults. Before becoming a crime fiction writer, she was a senior civil servant, working across a variety of departments and agencies, including the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Unlike her protagonists, however, she doesn’t know where (all) the bodies are buried.
She writes crime fiction reviews for Time and Leisure Magazine and is a co-founder and Trustee of the Clapham Book Festival.
She lives in south London where her latest crime fiction series is set, returning to her first love of writing historical fiction with The Midnight Man, to be published by Hobeck.
Julie’s Links
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julieandersonwriter/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/jjulieanderson
Website : https://julieandersonwriter.com/
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