The Bachelor Girl's Guide to Murder by Rachel McMillanMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Toronto, around 1910. Jem Watts and her friend Merinda Herringford are not your usual turn of the century girls. Instead of finding nice husbands and being domestic goddesses, they live on their own and try to be investigators, just like Sherlock Holmes.
Merinda is rich and her parents support her, but Jem has to work in a department stores as her own parents have disowned her.
When a young Irish girl (and then a second one) are found murdered, Merinda takes it upon herself to find out the killer. This is not as simple as it seems, as the Morality Squad is intent on "arresting women suspected of incorrigibility or vagrancy". That means not going out after dark alone among other things. There's also Dorothea Farfaix's Handbook to Bachelor Girlhood, which punctuates each chapter with what a girl should do to find herself a husband.
This book is a very entertaining read, but there are some lose ends that made me wonder if it needs more editing (I read a galley). Also, Jem is a very likable character but Merinda was for me the contrary. She's rude, bossy and not very interesting. And even though she really doesn't care about finding a husband, Jem does so it made me wonder about the point of the book, as at least half of the team is not a very willing bachelor.
I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review
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