Transported back to the early 1800s in the first book in this series, Kendra Donovan is still trying to fit into the world in which she landed. Everything is different - manners and customs, everyday living, how crimes are solved.And it is solving crime that Kendra is still drawn to. Before she landed in the 1800s, she worked for the FBI. Now, safely under the wings of the Duke of Aldridge as his ward (something that grates on her), she has become known as someone with the ability to solve crimes. And the current crime to involve her is the murder of Sir Giles Holbrooke. Left naked and strangled and with his tongue cut out in a church, the other puzzling thing is the symbols that show up during his autopsy. Are they crosses or something else?
With the help of Bow Street Runner Sam Kelly, the Duke's goddaughter Rebecca, and his dashing nephew and heir Alexander Morgan, Kendra sets out to solve the puzzle. And just as she is used to, the murder is solved one step at a time with careful footwork and questions. Will they be able to solve this one before someone else is killed?
This is the fourth book in the series and I have enjoyed all of them. To be honest, I enjoy time travel books. The author does a good job of showing Kendra's frustrations as the strictures that exist in this time period, especially those for women. But as Kendra finds out, solving crimes in any century follow basically the same path. So maybe life wasn't really so different?
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