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This is the second Spring book of my Reading The Seasons ‘challenge’ – which isn’t really a challenge at all but just reading some books with Spring in the title in March, April and May. This one was already reserved to read anyway, before my bright idea.
Cora Harrison – Spring of Hope. Crime Fiction. (Published 2021).
This is one of the author’s Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins mystery series.
March 1859 and it’s the spring after the summer of ‘The Great Stink’, when the Thames became so polluted with sewage that Parliament was overwhelmed. Dickens has become friends with Joseph Bazalgette, a young engineer, who is trying to find a way to keep the sewage out the Thames and win a big money prize. At the exhibition to show his plans a man is fatally injured and Dickens and Collins are not convinced it was an accident.
I’m enjoying this series which are fiction but based on some facts and real people of the time. They also shed some light (perhaps) on the woman and her small daughter that Collins took into his home without knowing anything about them.
Back Tomorrow
Sue
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