I first picked up this book probably about 2 months ago, but didn't get to it. I had been watching *Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries* on WGBH, and looked to see what they had in the library for books which the series is based on. 
 Oddly, I'm not quite sure how to review this. I could tell you all kinds of things about the story, but I'd rather not, because well that would be telling, "spoilers" as a certain Doctor Who character says. So I will *try* to stay away from that. 
 One thing I noticed, it kind of read like a Agatha Christie, or something from that general era. Which kind of surprised me. I didn't feel a "modernity" of it, as the writing style was very similar to the 1920s or so that it is set in. 
 That was probably really intentional. And, it worked very well. 
 Another thing, her descriptions, are absolutely fantastic. Something about them puts me *right there*. 
 One thing that in a few places felt a little odd, was that there was a bit of anthropomorphism of a dog (or was it both dogs) who occur in the story. Rather than simply describing their actions, she describes their "motivation". 
 That happened so infrequently as to not be a "plot device" but it did feel a bit odd to me. 
 One thing I felt, when reading the book was it reminded me a lot of one of the episodes which I watched (and didn't look up until well into it). What I noticed about that, was that the books is *very* different from the episode of the same name. 
 Some things are very similar. Others, very much different. Very key plot points are very different. They are kind of entirely different stories.