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A review by wart
The Thief Taker by C.S. Quinn
5.0
[I received a free ARC of this book via NetGalley. This fact has no bearing on my review]
You can read this and other reviews at Things I Find While Shelving
Charlie Tuesday is a thief taker - he finds stolen items for people. When he is enlisted to help find a murderer, he's a little wary - not his usual sort of job - but the money is good, even if he just looks at the crime scene, so why not? Except there's a symbol on the body that matches one on an item he's had since arriving at the foundling hospital, so the girl who hired him - Anna Maria - thinks he's the murderer.
Now he's on a mission to prove his innocence and untangle a the web of mystery surrounding not only this first murder, but all the ones that follow.
Hard enough to begin with, but London is also being decimated by the Plague. His suspects and witnesses could be long gone by the time he even discovers their connections to the case. But he and Anna Maria (once he's convinced her he did not, in fact, murder her sister) are determined to bring the killer to justice.
This book is such a page turner! I was hooked from the start and the twists and turns in the plot are intriguing and just when I thought I had the mystery figured out, I had a new theory, and then a new one. AND THEN THE REVEAL OMG!
And the characters are fantastic. From Charlie and Anna Maria themselves to Bitey (who has wooden teeth and likes to raise pigs), they're all so well developed.
You can read this and other reviews at Things I Find While Shelving
Charlie Tuesday is a thief taker - he finds stolen items for people. When he is enlisted to help find a murderer, he's a little wary - not his usual sort of job - but the money is good, even if he just looks at the crime scene, so why not? Except there's a symbol on the body that matches one on an item he's had since arriving at the foundling hospital, so the girl who hired him - Anna Maria - thinks he's the murderer.
Now he's on a mission to prove his innocence and untangle a the web of mystery surrounding not only this first murder, but all the ones that follow.
Hard enough to begin with, but London is also being decimated by the Plague. His suspects and witnesses could be long gone by the time he even discovers their connections to the case. But he and Anna Maria (once he's convinced her he did not, in fact, murder her sister) are determined to bring the killer to justice.
This book is such a page turner! I was hooked from the start and the twists and turns in the plot are intriguing and just when I thought I had the mystery figured out, I had a new theory, and then a new one. AND THEN THE REVEAL OMG!
And the characters are fantastic. From Charlie and Anna Maria themselves to Bitey (who has wooden teeth and likes to raise pigs), they're all so well developed.