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Detective Hodgins Victorian Mystery #2
Death on Duchess Street
The tranquillity of a tight-knit neighbourhood in Victorian Toronto is shattered when a young girl becomes the next victim in a string of robberies, missing persons and murder. Why is her father acting so strangely? Could he somehow be involved? Are the two murders and the disappearance of a neighbour connected?
Detective Albert Hodgins travels east to Kingston and north to the tiny hamlet of Pine Grove looking for answers. The trail eventually leads to New York and a rather rough NY Captain whose methods are almost deadly. Hodgins frantically tries to piece everything together so the person responsible can pay for his, or her, crime.
Detective Albert Hodgins travels east to Kingston and north to the tiny hamlet of Pine Grove looking for answers. The trail eventually leads to New York and a rather rough NY Captain whose methods are almost deadly. Hodgins frantically tries to piece everything together so the person responsible can pay for his, or her, crime.
- GenresMystery
212 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 30, 2015
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About the author
Nanci M. Pattenden
33 books15 followersNanci M. Pattenden is a genealogist and a fiction writer, with non-fiction articles in The Attic, Ancestors, and Site Lines. She is currently working on a collection of detective stories set in Victorian Toronto, as well as a novel based on an 1891 murder involving a young relative.
Nanci lives in Southern Ontario with her cat Snowball, and has completed the Creative Writing program at the University of Toronto as well as at the University of Calgary.
Nanci lives in Southern Ontario with her cat Snowball, and has completed the Creative Writing program at the University of Toronto as well as at the University of Calgary.
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
June 12, 2024
Love a good mystery
Detective Albert Hodgins has his work cut out for him when his case load starts piling up with robberies, missing persons, and the brutal murder of a young lady from around his area. He is assisted by Constable Barnes who is proving to be an excellent right-hand man.
Set in Victorian Toronto and surrounding area, it is obvious that Pattenden has done her research of the time and location, and of the laws and practices of that time. Her writing is clear, her transitions flow, and her characters are engaging.
While I’m a reader who likes a gory mystery, filled with descriptions of blood, psychotic killers and maimed bodies, I found that stepping into a more ‘cozy’ mystery was refreshing. Looks like I’m going to be reading the other five in this series... but only when I need a break from the evil and malevolence of the books I love.
Brava, Nanci Pattenden.
Detective Albert Hodgins has his work cut out for him when his case load starts piling up with robberies, missing persons, and the brutal murder of a young lady from around his area. He is assisted by Constable Barnes who is proving to be an excellent right-hand man.
Set in Victorian Toronto and surrounding area, it is obvious that Pattenden has done her research of the time and location, and of the laws and practices of that time. Her writing is clear, her transitions flow, and her characters are engaging.
While I’m a reader who likes a gory mystery, filled with descriptions of blood, psychotic killers and maimed bodies, I found that stepping into a more ‘cozy’ mystery was refreshing. Looks like I’m going to be reading the other five in this series... but only when I need a break from the evil and malevolence of the books I love.
Brava, Nanci Pattenden.
July 28, 2018
Great Book!
Engaging characters, Interesting story..Easy read! It had me guessing on who the Murder was!
I hope in the books to come his wife will help him with his investigating. They would make a good team. What I truly enjoyed was how kind and thoughtful the sheriff was to his family. You don’t find that to often in Victorian Murder Mystery’s.
Next Up, Book Two!!
Engaging characters, Interesting story..Easy read! It had me guessing on who the Murder was!
I hope in the books to come his wife will help him with his investigating. They would make a good team. What I truly enjoyed was how kind and thoughtful the sheriff was to his family. You don’t find that to often in Victorian Murder Mystery’s.
Next Up, Book Two!!
February 21, 2020
A nice Victorian mystery
Detective Hodgins with help from Constable Barnes have a couple of mysteries to solve. A young girl is murdered and so is a man. They have to figure out of they are connected. Police methods were a bit brutal in Victorian times. I did enjoy this book though.
Detective Hodgins with help from Constable Barnes have a couple of mysteries to solve. A young girl is murdered and so is a man. They have to figure out of they are connected. Police methods were a bit brutal in Victorian times. I did enjoy this book though.
May 15, 2018
All in all, this is an enjoyable mystery and police procedural that takes place in Victorian Toronto.
The sense of time and place are nicely done. Given that the book takes place during a hot, sweltering Toronto summer, this strikes me as a good book to read while sitting outside on a hot day.
The sense of time and place are nicely done. Given that the book takes place during a hot, sweltering Toronto summer, this strikes me as a good book to read while sitting outside on a hot day.
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