The Highgate Cemetery Murder

16% in and the two MCs still haven't met. From the little that I got through, it could have been paired down to at least half the length and I don't feel like listening to a book on 2x just to make it easier to get through the boring bits.

Also the description of the dead woman was a bit too gratuitous for me.

Didn't finish, just couldn't get into it.

Netgalley read.

A woman is murdered and displayed in a very gory fashion at a cemetery. The man that first discovered the dead woman gets crushed by an omnibus and his sister doesn't think it was an accident and along with Inspector Bell from Scotland Yard they set out to solve the case.

It's pretty dark and maybe a little graphic for some, you can start reading it as some of it is right at the start with the discovery of the body, and it gets darker still.

A few too many anachronisms that took me out of it at times. But still enjoyable, even if I could use more Gemma. Hopefully she has more to do in the second book of the series.

I got the audio book and at first I wonder if I would make it through as the narration was a little, over dramatic but I got used to it and/or it got better.

CW, rape, violence against women, violence against pregnant people, drug use.