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Starting off in quite a scarey atmospheric mode the story soon settled into a very good Victorian police procedural.This 2020 revised edition, the 2nd in the Insp. Ravenscroft series had lots of characters, most of which were involved in some illegal activity. It will be impossible for the reader to guess who is involved in the main criminal activity until the story nears it end, with one not until the very last page. An excellent superior read

At first I was a bit put off by the 'interlude' chapters, that jump to different characters in this continuing subplot, but it did come together at the end; and will continue into the third book.. I do like Ravenscroft & Crabb, though sometimes they repeat things the reader already knows a tad too much