The Lamplighter
A Fiction, Horror, Mystery book. It was hard for me to rate this book because...
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- Pages: 308 pages
- ISBN: 9780743243490 / 743243498
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It was hard for me to rate this book because at various points I really dug it and at other various points I almost gave up on it. O'Neill did a great job portraying and developing some of the characters and I particularly enjoyed Inspector Groves in all his blustering glory. But on the other hand, the plot became overly weird and wandered... The Lamplighter is many things. It is historical fiction, it is a murder mystery, it is a horror story. I became absorbed in 19th century Edinburgh with all it's twists and turns. Groves is the police inspector investigating the brutal murders on the city streets. But he is not the only one trying to solve this mystery. There is professor... I... just don't even know where to begin with this one. Initially reads as a fairly straightforward historical mystery, when a series of gruesome and bestial murders hits 1880s Edinburgh. Self-absorbed police Inspector Groves, who often seems more interested in how a case will be presented to future readers of his memoir-in-progress,...