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Garden of Sins

von Laura Joh Rowland

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London, November 1890. Crime scene photographer Sarah Bain Barrett faces a perfect storm of events. She and her husband Detective Sergeant Barrett are riding on a train that crashes. While rescuing other passengers, they find a woman who's been strangled to death. Their search for her identity and her killer lead them to Cremorne Gardens, a seedy riverside pleasure park that's a combination carnival, theater, freak show, and museum of oddities. It's among the most challenging cases that Sarah, Barrett, and her friends Lord Hugh Staunton and Mick O'Reilly have ever undertaken. The suspects include a dwarf, a female acrobat, and a member of the Royal Family. Due to the royal connection, the police commissioner declares the case top-secret. Sarah and company must investigate on the quiet, keeping the suspects, the press, and the public in the dark. That's easier said than done. The investigation is complicated by the injury Hugh sustained during their last case, Mick's romance with a woman who has psychic powers, and Barrett's old flame. Meanwhile, Sarah's father Benjamin Bain goes on trial for a rape and murder that happened more than two decades ago. The victim was a teenage girl named Ellen Casey. Is Benjamin Bain as innocent as he claims? Sarah has serious doubts. The trial is the scandal of the year, a media blitz. The outcome--and the truth about the murder on the train--are beyond Sarah's wildest imaginings. What dangerous secrets are hidden behind the tawdry glamor of Cremorne Gardens? Is Benjamin Bain wrongly accused, or a guilty sinner who deserves to be hanged?… (mehr)
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Garden Of Sins is the sixth book in the A Victorian Mystery series by Laura Joh Rowland.

The story begins with Sarah and her husband, Thomas, riding on the underground on their way to the first day of her father’s trial for murdering a young girl. Suddenly their carriage and others derail, crashing into one another. They are not injured and proceed to enter cars to aid the wounded. They come to a dead woman but quickly learn that she has been strangled.
They assume the victim is American as she had the new Kodak camera, which has not arrived in England yet. They will soon learn that she was a Pinkerton agent and was tailing a wealthy American heiress. When Sarah gets the film from the camera developed, she and Barrett are shocked to see that one of the pictures is of His Highness Prince Edward, and the pictures had been taken at Cremorne Gardens. Cremorne Gardens had once been a lovely destination but has turned into a rather seedy area, and now any type of entertainment, legal or not, can be found. Once Commissioner Bradford of Scotland Yard sees the picture of Prince Eddy, he puts Barrett and Sarah on an undercover assignment ordering them not to share any information with anyone until they can get Prince Edward cleared of any wrongdoing, if possible. Sarah and Barrett will head to Cremorne Gardens to learn its connection with the Pinkerton agent and the Prince. They find that the Gardens is being run by a dwarf, who considers himself an actor, a former trapeze artist, and a tattooed Hercules-type man.
As if this isn’t enough for Sarah, she comes home one day to find Barrett in a compromising position with his ex-girlfriend, who has been trying to break up their marriage.

Sarah has Mick, the street urchin, and she has provided a home for, and possibly Hugh. Hugh has been extremely despondent lately as he is having difficulty recovering from a gunshot wound received in an earlier case.

Once again, the author has provided readers with an exciting and historically accurate story set during the Victorian era. This book moved at a good pace and was hard to put down. The book is well-written and plotted, and enough red herrings that kept me guessing until the end of the book as to who the murderer was. The book has a great cast of well-developed, believable, and exciting characters.

I’m anxiously awaiting the next book in the series. ( )
  FredYoder | Jan 11, 2022 |
The title says it all!

So much of peoples’ lives are laid bare, secrets revealed and foul behavior exposed in this sixth title in Rowland’s Victorian Mystery series.
Oh My! What a cliffhanger! Talk about bringing me to my knees! Now if you’ve been following Sarah Bain and Thomas Barrett this episode literally implodes with action, angst, torment and dead bodies.
I scarcely have time to take a breath between page turns.
Sarah Bain—determined, outrageous;Thomas Barrett her detective sergeant husband, a man of integrity; her friends and chosen family/house mates—former street urchin Mick O’Reilly, Lord Hugh Stanton and his valet Fitzmorris. Their inclusion in Sarah’s life are spelt out in previous books.
Sarah is a crime investigator for the Daily World newspaper, a private detective, and a talented photographer.
The huge issue in her life is her father, accused of rape, and on the run for the past years. In her efforts to prove her father innocent Sarah’s followed a trail of breadcrumbs and come in contact with unexpected people, including a half sister, Sally, she never knew she had.
I’v followed her path over five novels. Things are coming to a head. I must admit I really disliked Sarah when I first met her but I’ve come to appreciate her as I’ve seen her strengths and weaknesses. In this section of her life, her story is totally absorbing, even as I cringe at some of the happenings.
The investigation of a death on a train leads to Cremorne Gardens and a rather bizarre case.
Gripping!

A Crooked Lane Books ARC via NetGalley
(Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.) ( )
  eyes.2c | Jan 11, 2022 |
I've been wearying of mediocre historical mysteries lately, going so far as to create a list of writers I want to remember to avoid. Laura Joh Rowland is NOT one of those writers. Garden of Sins provides a satisfying blend of fun, menace, and historical scandal that make it well worth reading.

This novel set in the Victorian era includes the central characters, the Barretts (she's a crime-scene photographer; he's a police officer), and their investigative "team" that includes a gay aristocrat and a former street child. There's also evil Inspector Reid who has it in for Sarah Bain Barrett. He's trying to frame her father for a decades-old murder and threatening to frame her husband for more recent ones.

The action shifts between settings—sometimes focusing on Sarah's father's defense team, sometimes returning to Sarah's childhood neighborhood, and often taking place in Crenmore Gardens, a derelict amusement garden with multiple offerings, some more legal than others. Readers get to experience a train wreck, investigate the death of a female Pinkerton agent, discover a dark side to one member of the royal family, search for a missing American heiress, and face a possible reemergence of Jack the Ripper.

In other words, the action is non-stop. If you like historical mysteries, this is a series you'll want to check out. I received a free electronic review copy of this title from the publisher via NetGalley; the Opinions are my own. ( )
  Sarah-Hope | Dec 13, 2021 |
This is the sixth book in this series and it is finally time for the murder trial of Benjamon Bain. Sarah's father had been on the run for twenty-four years until Sarah tracked him down and a bitter enemy of hers - Inspector Reid - arrests him more to get at Sarah than to serve justice.

Sarah and her husband Barrett are trying to adjust to marriage but Sarah's trust issues and an old girlfriend of Barrett's are almost enough to ruin the marriage before it can really take hold. When Sarah and Barrett stumble onto the corpse of a woman after they have survived a train crash, they have a new case to solve. The woman was murdered and their first clues are found in some images on her Kodak camera.

Those images lead Sarah and Barrett to the Cremorne Gardens which Sarah remembers from a pleasant outing with her father when she was a child. Now, the Gardens have fallen into disrepair and are gradually being repaired by former circus performers including a dwarf who sees himself as a Shakespearean actor, a tattooed man, and a woman who was a former acrobat.

But there are deep dark secrets hidden in the depths of Cremorne Gardens which include murders and the possible involvement of a member of British Royalty. Barrett and Sarah are sworn to secrecy in their investigations in order to preserve the reputation of the Royal Family.

This was an engaging story firmly set in the Victoria Era. The characters are well-rounded and intriguing people. The plot is nicely twisty as the cases that are being investigated all begin to have some connections to each other. Fans of rather dark historical mysteries with complex characters will enjoy this series. ( )
  kmartin802 | Nov 30, 2021 |
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London, November 1890. Crime scene photographer Sarah Bain Barrett faces a perfect storm of events. She and her husband Detective Sergeant Barrett are riding on a train that crashes. While rescuing other passengers, they find a woman who's been strangled to death. Their search for her identity and her killer lead them to Cremorne Gardens, a seedy riverside pleasure park that's a combination carnival, theater, freak show, and museum of oddities. It's among the most challenging cases that Sarah, Barrett, and her friends Lord Hugh Staunton and Mick O'Reilly have ever undertaken. The suspects include a dwarf, a female acrobat, and a member of the Royal Family. Due to the royal connection, the police commissioner declares the case top-secret. Sarah and company must investigate on the quiet, keeping the suspects, the press, and the public in the dark. That's easier said than done. The investigation is complicated by the injury Hugh sustained during their last case, Mick's romance with a woman who has psychic powers, and Barrett's old flame. Meanwhile, Sarah's father Benjamin Bain goes on trial for a rape and murder that happened more than two decades ago. The victim was a teenage girl named Ellen Casey. Is Benjamin Bain as innocent as he claims? Sarah has serious doubts. The trial is the scandal of the year, a media blitz. The outcome--and the truth about the murder on the train--are beyond Sarah's wildest imaginings. What dangerous secrets are hidden behind the tawdry glamor of Cremorne Gardens? Is Benjamin Bain wrongly accused, or a guilty sinner who deserves to be hanged?

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