The Vanished Bride
The year is 1845, and Emily, Charlotte and Anne Bronte are sat around the dining room table, laughing merrily as the rain of their Yorkshire summer falls outside. When their brother, Branwell, returns from The Bull Inn, he brings with him the most shocking revelation: that Elizabeth Chester, wife of Robert Chester and mistress of Chester Grange has gone missing - but the bloody scene found in her bedroom suggests she may have been murdered.
The governess at Chester Grange is Matilda French, a close friend of Charlotte's, who resolves to pay her a visit the following day. At Chester Grange, the sisters make the acquaintance of Robert, a rumoured cruel man, who is suspected of having driven his first wife to suicide. Determined that he should be brought to justice, the sisters throw themselves into solving the case.
As everyone knows, solving a murder requires sense, morals and a very good imagination - qualities which these sisters have more than enough of...
Something a little bit different to my normal reading. I'm not a big reader of the classics, but have read Jane Eyre.
I'm not convinced his works really, applying sleuthing to real authors. I know it says that we don't know whether they did or not.
There are a couple of incidences where the author refers to a character by first name and calls him Frank and then a short time later calls him John, this happened a couple of times and confused me.
As is the way of the Brontes the stories are descriptive and take a long time to get going.
As it all unfolds at the end it becomes rather predictable as to what the outcome will be.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for my ARC in return for an honest review.