In reality this is probably a 3 star book. There is just not enough of a story in the main murder. It's fairly straight-forward actually and the author basically tells you what happened early on so that part of the book kind of lost interest for me. The details surrounding the main story of life of 19th century England and it's culture is in my historical sweet spot so I loved most everything else about it even though it didn't grip me. Very similar to Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England