Near the turn of the nineteenth century, Dr. Thornhollow helps teenaged Grace Mae escape from the Boston asylum where she was sent after becoming pregnant by rape, and takes her to Ohio where they put her intelligence and remarkable memory to use in trying to catch murderers.
I enjoyed the setting of this book immensely. Atmospheric, brooding, meandering, mysterious, like a fog rolling in on a Victorian cobbled street. Great characters- a strong but damaged heroine, a doctor who was a little broken inside too, and a vast cast of inmates each with their own story to tell. My one regret with this one is that the ending didn't come together the way I would have liked- I found it tapered off and stumbled a little in the final chapters, where as the rest of the novel seemed to be building to something bigger. That said, I would definitely read it again, and try other books by the author.
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