Lady Cop Makes Trouble

3.5 stars, rounded up to 4. After the disappointing Girl Waits With Gun I was pleasantly surprised to find that the sequel surpassed the original. The sense of place and time as well as the pacing are all much improved. Maybe I'm just getting to know the characters better after two books, but I felt that the author did a better job at giving them some depth. I am curious about where Stewart will take the relationship between Constance and the Sheriff in the next book, and hoping that it doesn't go down the cliched romance path. Also will Fleurette ever figure out the truth about her place in the family? See now, I'm hooked!

This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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Miss Constance Kopp, who once hid behind a tree near her home in Wyckoff, N.J., for five hours waiting to get a shot at a gang of Black Handers who had annoyed her, is now a Deputy Sheriff of Bergen County, N.J., and a terror to evildoers. — New York Press, December 20, 1915

Girl Waits with Gun

Disclaimer: I received this eARC from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt via NetGalley in exchange for this post – thanks to both for this.
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