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A review by cooperca
Judgment of the Grave by Sarah Stewart Taylor
4.0
There was a lot going on with this story, but it all came together in the end. This is my first book in the series (this is book #3 in the series) and I found the characters to be interesting, complex, and flawed. The storyline and mystery definitely kept me guessing and as a good mystery should, had me thinking at one time or another that everyone could be the murderer.
Sweeney St. George is a Harvard art history professor who has come to Concord, MA to research eighteenth-century headstones. Being one who loves to explore historic cemeteries, reading about the stonecutters who created these headstones feed right into my obsession.
The only issue that stood our for me on the, 'what??' factor was that the detective brought his baby daughter to active crime scenes and into the police precinct when he was working. Now, I haven't been into many precincts, but I just found that odd and not sure why Ms. Taylor included it. Did it bother me enough that it took me out of the story, no. I just found it a little bizarre.
Good story, good mystery, good characters. Looking forward to catching up on all the Sweeney St. George mysteries.
Sweeney St. George is a Harvard art history professor who has come to Concord, MA to research eighteenth-century headstones. Being one who loves to explore historic cemeteries, reading about the stonecutters who created these headstones feed right into my obsession.
The only issue that stood our for me on the, 'what??' factor was that the detective brought his baby daughter to active crime scenes and into the police precinct when he was working. Now, I haven't been into many precincts, but I just found that odd and not sure why Ms. Taylor included it. Did it bother me enough that it took me out of the story, no. I just found it a little bizarre.
Good story, good mystery, good characters. Looking forward to catching up on all the Sweeney St. George mysteries.