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Title: The Wages of Sin

Author: Kaite Welsh

Narrator: Emily Pennant-Rea

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-17

Publisher: Tinder Press

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

An irresistible mystery set in 1890s Edinburgh, Kaite Welsh's The Wages of Sin features a female medical student turned detective and will thrill fans of Sarah Waters and Antonia Hodgson.

Sarah Gilchrist has fled from London to Edinburgh in disgrace and is determined to become a doctor, despite the misgivings of her family and society. As part of the University of Edinburgh's first intake of female medical students, Sarah comes up against resistance from lecturers, her male contemporaries, and - perhaps worst of all - her fellow women, who will do anything to avoid being associated with a fallen woman....

When one of Sarah's patients turns up in the university dissecting room as a battered corpse, Sarah finds herself drawn into Edinburgh's dangerous underworld of bribery, brothels and body snatchers - and a confrontation with her own past.

Members Reviews:

An Unlikable Protagonist Weakens An Interesting Mystery

Welsh has created a potentially interesting character in Sarah Gilchrist a young woman in the late 1800s who is among the first females in Scotland who are allowed to study to become doctors. Flinty by nature, and made even more so by being deflowered by a cad and blamed for it by her parents--Sarah also volunteers in her spare time at a clinic where many of the patients are young prostitutes. She becomes involved with the death of Lucy one of those patients who suddenly ends up on the university's dissecting table. What follows is a decent whodunit tale that leads the reader into the tragic world of young women of the streets at that time--and the many people who used and abused them. Unfortunately, Sarah never becomes a likable or engaging main character for the reader. And by the end of the story and the solving of the mystery I was happy to be done with her,

Thoroughly enjoyable!

If you're looking for a good mystery, you'll find it here. Watch out for the name dropping at the end though.

A good read

This book is intelligent, well-written, and timely in today's society (despite being historical fiction).

Five Stars

gREAT NEW STORY!!!

Historical mystery with complex characters & rich sense of place

The Wages of Sin is at once murder mystery, historical fiction, and a rich account of the life and struggles of its protagonist, first year medical student Sarah Gilchrist, as she tries to make a place for herself in a number of different worlds that don't want her; it's sure to resonate with readers who look for strong character development, a wide range of female characters working in different ways to challenge a world that doesn't see their worth, rich sensory and sociohistorical detail, and of course, a good whodunit.

While it's been marketed as a mystery, and certainly has many of the trappings thereof -- dead bodies, forensic medicine, tracking down and questioning potential subjects, encounters with the constabulary, some really convincing red herrings and a seriously thrilling climactic sequence -- it would be a mistake to come to the novel expecting the snappy pace of a contemporary crime procedural. This only seems fair, since our amateur detective Sarah is pretty busy trying to figure out how to find time to sleuth between studying for her med school classes, volunteering at a clinic for some of Edinburgh's least fortunate, and politely evading her relatives' attempts at matchmaking.